Good to see a post by Steve Gleeson and signs in it that he’s starting to get and idea of the rewards blogging offers.
Steve asks “Do English Blog?” He seems to be asking about ‘English’ people (nationality) rather than English speaking. Which is strange as he lives in Australia. I’d much rather ask ‘Do Australians blog?’ To which I’d answer yes, but not mearly enough. But it’s still early days really.
Dave Sifry, Founder and CEO of Technorati, has some interesting comment about blogging languages (as opposed to the actual nationality of the blogger) over in part 2 of his latest State of the Blogosphere post.
Steve also ponders:
“Why do people - yes everyday normal people - decide to expose themselves by creating a blog and going public. ”
From where I sit, I think it has something to do with how we are made up. Some of which I talked about in my previous poast ‘Openness is more than an API‘.
The short form is people crave relationship and connection/communication is at the heart of relationship - Connection and communication on a large scale is what blogs are good at.
The blogosphere is in essence just one big love-fest!
My friend Jane has taken her first step into blogdom.
Her blog is over here. Say hi and welcome another Jewel.
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Ohhh…head hurts, feeling poorly. I’ve got a couple good things brewing but no energy to get there. I think I peaked and burnt temporarily at the Conference.
Spirits willing but flesh …..
I may be temporarily resembling this remark Hugh highlighted in “the price of a cluetrain ticket” from Jeremy Ballenger:
What I find interesting is so many people, bloggers included, forget they are often the person providing the alternative, working longer, harder and less securely than ever before to be the one winning the business, and ‘ripping the lid off’. There is a notable absence of discussion in the blogosphere by people about the cost of a Cluetrain ticket, or the price of the ever-lengthening Long Tail - to my mind, everyone just assumes that it can’t be that bad.
As promised, a photo of us at the Conference.
Mike (Learndog-Left) & Dave (Lifekludger-Right) - Thanks Lab for posting the pic.
The New York Times has comment on the Daylight saving headache. Calling it a ‘mini Y2K‘ problem. No REAL solutions that would help our balls up with the recent Commenwealth Games fiasco though.
In a part 2 blog post about the state of the blogosphere, Dave Sifry outlines interesting stats about the languages of posts that are being generated.
My friend Cheryl has started blogging on enableblogs.
She’s written a considered pozt about access issues in the Arts Theatre in Adelaide.
Step over there and give a new blogger some support. Introduce yourself.
Dave
Mike and I did our presso at ConnectingUp today, all went well.
I’ve given more info. on my Lifekludger post here.
Mike’s got a bit on the presentation here too.
Oh, and our podcast was born today.
