There are things worth saying, and there are things worth doing. Then there's also most of the internet.
There are 10's of thousands of blogs being posted all over the net, I ponder about the fact that everyone has a blog, my girlfriends are posting their new findings from new romantic dining places to the most frustrating anger venting about their work at the office and their bosses. If there's a weakness to most blogs in the immense blogosphere, I perceive it to be a disconnection from the reality of daily life. Most of the time it seems blogs are esoteric rambles that result in wasted hours making superficial connections with complete strangers all over the world. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I think it's fantastic that people can span the globe with the clickety-clack of caffeine-frenzied fingers and meet intriguing people of diverse backgrounds from anywhere.
And if you believe it, that's something we can offer that the hot air coming from much of the blogsphere cannot. Any astronomer will tell you that hot air creates turbulence that disturbs your vision, but they'll also tell you that few people outside (even inside) the ivory tower are excited by charts and equations. The astronomers are under VERY few illusions about how popular academicese is.
It's all very well, then, for us to make these speeches to captive audiences who have paid thousands of dollars as the price of admission. They have to listen if they want to pass our courses, or, at least, reduce thousands of dollars worth of dissonance. But can we get people surfing for free to stop and notice, agree, and maybe change the way they think just a smidge? It'll be exciting to find out.
From a new blogger’s perspective, it surely demonstrates terrific response reaction from them, but then is the story of “is” really worth talking about? Don’t we have something else more meaningful, something more constructive to be covered? The philosophy of blogging is to gauge readers in conversations by forming communities.
In between those extremes of exploration and consternation, I found myself using this spot for sharing, pimping, contextualizing, opining, pointing and anything else under the sun I found valuable and interesting.
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