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January 18, 2003
What is Blogging?
George Siemens has posted two excellent pieces on The Art of Blogging, including a lot of the history and philosophy of blogging, as well as tips for the beginning blogger. I think these are good enough to make the Left Margin of my blog.
I have waxed poetic about blogs at least once in the recent past. I probably will again. I have been surprised to see how well blogging works, and who participates. Blogs are now driving face-to-face communications, as well as electronic asychronous ones. Several times this week I ran into people I don't talk to often and our discussion centered around something in my blog they had read. I travelled a few days this week, and used the UEN NOC blog to catch up on network events, which I then followed up on using Instant Messenging. Jim has told me about several great experiences related to people getting to know him through his blog.
I have gotten to know so many people through their blogs, better than I could have given the few opportunities we have to spend time together. Even people I spend a lot of time with, I've gotten to know better through their blogs. I try now to get everyone I know (well, most of them) to start and maintain a blog, so I can get to know them better.
One aspect of blogging I have really enjoyed is that it provides a great method for getting things out of my head and onto (virtual) paper on a regular basis. I suspect my blog is far more useful to myself as a thinking tool than it is to those (few) who read it.
Posted by pete at January 18, 2003 07:25 PM
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