Blogs are Contagious
I took some time off from my blogging schedule to have lunch with a friend who has a new blog so that we could talk about blogging. Listening to the radio on the drive to the appointed restaurant, I caught the The Diane Rehm Show, which was all about blogging. Her guest was Scott Gant, a media scholar, lawyer, and author of “We’re all Journalists Now.” Blogging was likened to the early printing press and the pamphlet distributing days of Thomas Paine and others.
A third friend joined us at the India Garden lunch table. We briefly tried to talk her into a blog. Stat counters, url addresses, The Bold and the Beautiful soap opera, and the war in Iraq were all discussed. I forgot to pull out my camera to snap a blog relevant scene, and I resisted the urge to complain too loudly that dahl was not included in the buffet.
Meanwhile, upon my return home, I faced the computer screen again and got back to work on my two-hundred word blog bio for the writer’s room write-up on the Hotel Floyd webpage and three-hundred spam comments were waiting to be sent to the junk folder.
June 13th, 2007 1:36 pm
Don’t you love spam? I seem to have a proliferation of it this week. Somebody must have obtained new addresses or something. Yikes.
There are people who blog and people who have no clue what blogging is about. It is an interesting phenomenon.
June 13th, 2007 1:48 pm
Oh, I won’t take it personal then. I’m getting slammed with spam!
June 13th, 2007 4:43 pm
Spam is down around here; I’m feeling neglected. Guess you’re getting my share. I’m working on enticing a couple of friends into blogging; one of them is SUCH a wonderful writer! Bravo to you for blog enabling!
June 13th, 2007 7:10 pm
Love dahl. It’s a darling dish.
You know, I think wearing that t-shirt is only a fair heads up. Sort of works against being an undercover journaling operative tho.
June 13th, 2007 10:08 pm
Well, more and more people are blogging now and almost everyone knows what it is. It is a cool connection and way to express, even if no one were to read it. Is that a real T-shirt?!
June 13th, 2007 11:15 pm
Hello Colleen: I participated in a literary event last month and was asked to talk about blogging as genre. I would agree with Scott that blogging is indeed similar to the early printing press. Blogging has revolutionized the way we communicate with one another. The transference, proliferation and cross-pollination of ideas, music, words is truly amazing. Whew – that was a mouthful . . . And I totally love the whole meta-discourse on what blogging is an isn’t . . .
Talk soon, XINE
June 13th, 2007 11:25 pm
The T-shirt is real. You can order one here: http://www.thinkgeek.com/oreilly/tshirts/5eb7/
June 14th, 2007 9:08 am
Contagious and addictive!
I gave Amy the “Trust me I’m a Lawyer tee” She has, of course, seen your shots of the “Doctor” tee.