Blogging
My two blog identities are drifting apart.
Some people blog, some don't. Some lurk - that is read and not comment. On LJ, that is the height of rudeness. On Blogger, it is more expected. I think the ability to easily blog articles for discussion sets a different mood.
Blogging is often a bone of contention here. I blog. Kev doesn't really. I think blogging is annoying and threatening to non-bloggers. For bloggers, it's a wonderful outlet / communication.
I know some people through blogs who I have never met, or rarely see. Others are a part of my daily life, like acernum and red saucer. The RL (real life) relationship is different from but overlapping with the blog relationship. You have to be sensitive to locked entries, and not expose them in RL to excluded parties. (No locked entries on this blog btw). There is a certain duality to conversations, as you can have a RL conversation that dovetails with an online one, which means you say things like "Oh yes, you blogged that: I replied." Also, you can avoid in RL a topic you are blogging so as not to taint the blog conversation (convo) flow. Sometimes you can come to know a RL person so well online that you're not sure what to say face to face: do you jump to the level of relationship developed in the blog (or email) or do you take the required RL steps of social interaction? This is a reality that has destoyed marriages.
And of course, blogging is a part of RL for some of us!
So at Alpha, someone said: "I've been following your blog...." and I'm not really sure what I said. Because, I didn't know she'd read my blog. So the words sort of echoed in my head, and I thought: Why? What have I said? Am I smiling? And other inane, internal thoughts. So if you're still reading the blog - sorry for my glazed response!
Finally, commenting is good! Life is busy; sometimes virtual communication is as good as it gets for a while. If anyone reading this also reads Pastor Kitson's blog - it'd be interesting to see what others think about when reading by commenting on his blog.
Some people blog, some don't. Some lurk - that is read and not comment. On LJ, that is the height of rudeness. On Blogger, it is more expected. I think the ability to easily blog articles for discussion sets a different mood.
Blogging is often a bone of contention here. I blog. Kev doesn't really. I think blogging is annoying and threatening to non-bloggers. For bloggers, it's a wonderful outlet / communication.
I know some people through blogs who I have never met, or rarely see. Others are a part of my daily life, like acernum and red saucer. The RL (real life) relationship is different from but overlapping with the blog relationship. You have to be sensitive to locked entries, and not expose them in RL to excluded parties. (No locked entries on this blog btw). There is a certain duality to conversations, as you can have a RL conversation that dovetails with an online one, which means you say things like "Oh yes, you blogged that: I replied." Also, you can avoid in RL a topic you are blogging so as not to taint the blog conversation (convo) flow. Sometimes you can come to know a RL person so well online that you're not sure what to say face to face: do you jump to the level of relationship developed in the blog (or email) or do you take the required RL steps of social interaction? This is a reality that has destoyed marriages.
And of course, blogging is a part of RL for some of us!
So at Alpha, someone said: "I've been following your blog...." and I'm not really sure what I said. Because, I didn't know she'd read my blog. So the words sort of echoed in my head, and I thought: Why? What have I said? Am I smiling? And other inane, internal thoughts. So if you're still reading the blog - sorry for my glazed response!
Finally, commenting is good! Life is busy; sometimes virtual communication is as good as it gets for a while. If anyone reading this also reads Pastor Kitson's blog - it'd be interesting to see what others think about when reading by commenting on his blog.
posted by Katrina Urquhart at 10:24 p.m.
1 Comments:
good observations, eloquently put. i was wondering myself whether my redsaucer blog was the right place to put my swimming post. redsaucer, compared to mfp, was (and still is) this quiet backwater where i stuck the odd poem. but swimming is a different exploration, so i'll try somwthing different than mfp.
good one on the how the different interfaces make for different blogging (the medium is the message, eh?)
i like your explicitness (and courage) about different blogging voices and audiences, and the sharp and blur between the real (RL) and the virtual (VL?). keeping different blogs reminds me of your post about keeping different writing journals.
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