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Wednesday, 13 June 2007
Tuesday, 05 June 2007
I have new role models now!
Been awhile since my last blog post. This past month and a half has been one of many meetings, conversations, and milestones. It's also been one of a number of emotional ups and downs. Blogging, at least in this format, has gotten a bit lost in through the course. And I think this has been a good thing!
I've been thinking alot about my life, where I'm headed, and what my goals are, and come to the realization that the way I've been thinking about blogging personally runs counter to all these things. The incentives are all wrong. Also, I've been looking at all the wrong examples. My (once) daily digest of rss feeds are largely made up of technology blogs. A number of A-listers and many more B-listers in the technology industry's blogosphere. Many of them blog to learn about developments in their particular areas of tech, and to share what they learn. Many started out this way, and eventually started to blog these things as their profession. Subconsiously, these are the people who have influenced how I feel I should be blogging. Unfortunately, I don't gain personal value from blogging in the same way that these people do.
I have however recently started exploring other forms of blogging. Twitter has been a major catalyst in my thinking about the informality of blogging. Also, it's been a wonderful outlet for me! Facebook has also been inspiring to me in connection with Jerry's recent passion with exploring the world of metaversal Lifelogging. My foray into lifelogging started with Last.fm, but Twitter and Facebook have really gotten me thinking about how social media is really impacting my relationships and how I form them. It's personal.
I'm also inspired by a number of local bloggers. Amber, Rusty, Shelby, Grayson, and many many others. Seeing bloggers develop real relationships through their blogs, twitterz, facebook accounts, etc, and developing relationships with them myself on and offline, is making me realize that I want to extend what I've been learning about lifelogging to this blog.
It's about developing relationships with people. It's personal. I've been saying this for a long time, but for a person such as myself it's been a difficult standard to live up to.
I guess I was thinking about blogging primarily as a way to share my learning and to further myself professionally. Subconsiously, A-listers were my role model, which really doesn't work for a great number of reasons. Well, I've decided that I have new role models now! I call them my friends.
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