
without a blog, you're a caveman
Without a blog, you're a caveman.
Carvings, moldings, rot.
Cowering in the darkness of
fear of transparency,
loathing of authenticity,
mocking of integrity.
The Global Conversation
is taking place in blogs.
Also in other internet
and offline venues,
but chiefly in blogs.
Understand By Doing
Best way to "understand" what a blog is,
how you can use one successfully,
what the blogosphere is,
what comments are all about,
you must start your own blog.
You cannot grasp the blog
outside the blog.
Blogging must be experienced.
Only a blogger understands blogs,
and even then, in a partial, but
hopefully increasing manner.
And it could be one obscure
little blog, in the middle of
nowhere blogospherically,
that contains:
your sought-for solution
your needed insight
your substantiating facts
your opportunity to see anew
and you are so unfamiliar
with what a blog is
what a blog can be
what a blog will be
you miss it.
Blog is Beyond the Book
Casual authors write print material, such as books.
Dedicated authors now write blogs, daily postings ("chapters", "volumes", and even "articles" are words that don't fit in the blogosphere), daily challenges to the author's imagination and expertise, daily work, daily discipline.
A blog is an intensely personal, or personalized professional, work in progress, a chapter a day, an eternalized book, stretching out, like consciousness, forever: thus the Blog is Beyond the Book.
:^|
2 comments:
So TRUE.....and those who don't get this for some reason remind me of this Mark Twain quote and made me think what a fascinating blogger he would have been!
"When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything happens ten years later there." -- Mark Twain
Thanks for the comment Marianne. Old Mark Twain is all over my blogs lately, people quoting him, me listing him as a major influence.
My favorite Mark Twain story is the "Autobiography of Adam and Eve" I think is the title, which ends, after getting kicked out of Eden, Adam says:
"wherever Eve is, there is paradise"
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