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I get so annoyed when people hype blogs and then others slag them off as a reaction.
They are quite simply all about people and relationships.
My last four posts about, or from, Doc, Gia, whiskeyriver, Hugh and David Weinberger - all of whom I now think of as friends - are testimony to the real power of blogs and I feel the need to justify this to no one but myself.
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If only that were so, Euan.
If only that were so.
Posted by: dave rogers | May 09, 2005 at 12:39 AM
So they're not Dave .......?
Posted by: Euan | May 09, 2005 at 12:50 AM
They are for some of us.
For too many more, they're about other things. Agendas, working out issues from childhood, seeking attention and authority, (in my case, thumbing my nose at as many of those as I can stand), making money, getting "credit," denying "credit," promoting themselves, castigating others, "saving the world," "flattening" the world, raising money, raising attention, getting attention, directing attention, obfuscating, intimidating, somnambulating, imitating, excoriating, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance, evading responsibility, assigning blame, seeking approval, and the list goes on and on...
All of which have something to do with relationships, just not as warm a fuzzy as we might prefer.
It's just a mirror of the world. That's all.
Posted by: dave rogers | May 09, 2005 at 03:48 AM
I guess that was what I meant Dave. They aren't used for any one thing except building relationship - however that manifests itself!
Posted by: Euan | May 09, 2005 at 06:09 AM
I new colleague of mine just discovered blogs. Well, my blog. I wrote about him the other week because he'd been really helping me out... I told him 'my secret' (my url) and he was really blown away. He was blown away by both my blog and all that involves, and he's been blown away by the *people*, by the *love*.
It's one thing for people all over the world to just stumble upon your blog and read about your thoughts... it's quite another to essentially tell someone you know in real life 'Hey, do you want to know pretty much everything I've been thinking over the past 3 years? Read this...' and you give them the key to your insides. I wasn't really aware until then just how intimate blogs are...
He is planning on starting his own blog. :)
Blogs are simply the most direct connection between our minds.
Posted by: gia | May 09, 2005 at 07:42 AM
Oh.
I think of you as my friend, too. :)
x
Posted by: gia | May 09, 2005 at 07:42 AM