March 02, 2003
PreEmptive Tangent To The Next Entry
One of the things that sucks about blogging is the fact that when I care about something, I feel like I'm rephrasing thoughts I've already read before, but in a way that makes sense to me. What ends up happening is that for the audience of mine that is interested in the same subject, they've already read what I'm writing about, and probably from sources that are more well spoken and better organized than I.
One of the strengths of blogging is that the strength of personal connections - meaning, the connections that don't have to do with common topical interests, but other more human connections like family, friendships, common experiences - yields an idea virulence (word?) that wouldn't otherwise occur. I don't know a damn thing about julienned carrots but if my buddy raves about them on his blog, it makes a ripple. He wouldn't rave about them directly to me because I'd smack him, but I give him more room when I read his writings.
Posted by Curt at March 2, 2003 01:05 AM