{"id":298,"date":"2004-12-11T22:26:04","date_gmt":"2004-12-11T22:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=298"},"modified":"2012-11-01T13:56:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T13:56:04","slug":"bug-in-radioland-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"On blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"
I got a gentle mocking from Eric Norlin today:<\/h5>\n
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so it seems your blog made both the digital id world and network world email newsletters in the same week….which, as far as i know, has never happened before and probably qualifies you for some sort of superstar blog status \ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/div>\n
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ps: i like the 4th law.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Imagine unsuspecting readers who fall upon this site. I mean, it has to qualify as one of the more esoteric blogs going. Or maybe not. I don&#39t know any more. The experience of blogging makes you challenge a lot of assumptions. Which reminds me…<\/span><\/p>\n

I really want to express my gratitude to the people who invented this whole blog thing, I know Dave Winer<\/a> was a key guy. I want to find out more about what went on in the first blog days.<\/span><\/p>\n

Funny thing is, although I really liked Dave Winer when Doc introduced me, it turns out I didn&#39t have a clue about what he had really done. It was sort of like meeting Bob Dylan at dinner but never having heard him sing. “Oh, you&#39re a singer – how interesting.” <\/span><\/p>\n

I say that because I now realize you<\/em> have to blog<\/em> to understand blogging –<\/strong> and I hadn&#39t<\/em>. In my case, at least, reading blogs was interesting enough and increased my level of information – but I saw nothing “revolutionizing” about it. <\/span><\/p>\n

Yet writing a blog is profoundly affecting my thinking<\/em> – and I&#39ve only done it for a few weeks. I get a lot of feedback and input. And it&#39s input of diverse kinds. Technologies that transform and help us evolve our thinking are truly precious and rare. Blogging is also transforming my relationships with people. I am awed by what its inventors have accomplished.<\/span> This in turn underlines one more time how superficial and stupid insipid comments about “the end of innovation” really are.<\/p>\n

I followed a link recently to a piece on <\/span>“Alpha Bloggers”<\/span><\/a>. I guess I shouldn&#39t be surprised that blogging is presented as a means to fame and glamour rather than “a means of consciousness”<\/strong>. Too bad.<\/span><\/p>\n

I&#39ve been working on identity matters since the 1980’s. And I&#39ve thought of myself as a member of a community of thinkers that extended across many different companies and institutions since the early days of electronic mail. I&#39ve grown with that community – learning, sometimes leading, and occasionally being thrown into bizarre opportunities to change what&#39s up. My friends have often been my competitors, and I&#39ve been happy and grateful every time they have made an innovation. As competitors we create each others’ opportunities as whole new technologies become more highly valued.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the past the community I am referring to has been an abstract thing. But I can see now that a person&#39s blog is written for their community – and, to a certain extent, at least in terms of subject matter, by<\/strong> its members. It is a reification (in the sense of making something abstract into a ‘thing’) of the ‘other’ with whom you communicate.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I got a gentle mocking from Eric Norlin today: so it seems your blog made both the digital id world and network world email newsletters in the same week….which, as far as i know, has never happened before and probably qualifies you for some sort of superstar blog status \ud83d\ude09 ps: i like the 4th … Continue reading On blogging<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1253,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/1253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}