on blogging

[aisa0]

since i've been blogging, i've read two articles about blogging that for different reasons have gotten me extremely excited. one was about the future of a blog connected world (here is a useful trackback). it covered the notion that peer-to-peer communication could change and enrich every facet of your life, from the way you travel (couch surfing

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[spoot14]

I blog because e-mail is so static. Blogging is dynamic. I hate to e-mail or write letters, I'm a conversation oriented person, not a talk at the wall type person. That's why I'm bad at keeping in touch except now I can blog, so that makes it better!

[aisa0]

i've noticed that too!

i've never been able to hold a long e-mail conversation without becoming bored or having the conversation go stale, but blogging, like you mention, is far more interactive and dynamic.

i also like that it is asynchronous. i can come back to check what people have said, and continue the conversation on my own time.

which doesn't quite jive with "real-time" blogging activities, but maybe they would be more fun?

[_wirehead_]

to keep in touch with people, particularly those people who aren't close enough friends that i would necessarily be talking to them if i was reduced to phone or e-mail communication. to plan things (both many weeks in advance, like a party, and spur-of-the-moment, like "we're going to dinner at foo, anyone who wants to come should join us"). to keep myself writing. to discuss interesting questions in an open forum. to record important events and discoveries about myself for my own reference. to gather information or ask advice of a group of people i trust, all at once. to meet new people in a medium where i can interact with them and get to know them in a more meaningful way than, say, in a bar. (and that's just off the top of my head...)

[aisa0]

i wonder what it is about blogging that simultaneously solves so many needs. the only other thing i can think about that does that is multiplayer role playing games, but blogging solves these things so much better for me.

off the top of your head, do you also use blogging for the reciprocal of the events? (e.g. to go find interesting writing or fun parties) do you go out to blogs seeking these things, or let them come to you in your friend's page? i guess i'm asking, is your blog use people or topic centered? (as if that were an either-or question...)