Edited by author 11-14-2003 01:49 PM
Whether you read it or someone else reads it after our time, we have to change the way we think about our world and how we live in it, the first person who can change the world is us by beginning in our own backyard. We have to give ourselves the permission to participate in learning about our own design and contributing as an individual.

Edited by author 03-11-2003 04:13 AM
Re: "sound blog makes falling in a forest", Why does it have to make a sound? We are already in the attention economy where the rush for dollars makes attention a commodity. We have to grab that attention back, blogs is one way of doing that. It is when we lose our attention about what we are most interested in that we are in peril.

The biggest flaw in our thinking is the quantity/time perspective. If the internet is generational rather than a temporary phenomena then imagine that the person who might be the reader of your blog is the children of our children - long after we are gone and only relevant to the circle we belong to. Isn't that the begining of a new type of village?

Whether you read it or someone else reads it after our time, we have to change the way we think about our world and how we live in it, the first person who can change the world is us by beginning in our own backyard. We have to give ourselves the permission to participate in learning about our own design and contributing as an individual.

Mark Zorro (zorromark@consultant.com)

Does it matter if anyone reads it? What matters is that in writing what you write, you understand it. That fact that you share what you write with a few thousand other people merely makes the experience whimsically interesting.

First and foremost, the golden rule, which is my loudest self-proclamation, is to be interested in reading yourself what you have blogged. If you are writing for the sake of someone else reading it, then IMHO you are writing for very egotistical and/or insecure reasons.

Mark Zorro
zorromark@consultant.com

Blogging is another iteration in the evolution of the web, and you're right, time is the limiting factor. Some blogs are little more than electronic journals of daily activities, others provide a forum for understanding and debate of current events. But all blogs on that broad continuum require the writer to observe, assess, and articulate. In a society dominated by television, blogs offer the potential of reconnecting among ourselves through thoughtful introspection. Even if there's no one to read it, the blogger is stronger for the exercise.

Given that there are over 10,000 blogs out there, the internet connected public seems to have taken this idea to heart.

However, I defy anyone to read more than 10 blogs a day and keep a job at the same time. There is a limiting factor of attention. What sound does a blog make falling in a forest, if there is no one to read it?