Hello, meet Web, Ph.D.
I find the nature of a blog very interesting, like speaking into a crowd, to no one in particular, and pausing to see if anyone takes notice.
I suppose that a blog is generally accepted as a place to share musings in a more spontaneous way than traditional websites. This format naturally triggers more imperfections and unintended outcomes than premeditated writing, such as typos and ill-expressed thoughts, like a face-to-face conversation does.
But then, a spoken idea diffuses into the air and is gone, only to remain in the memory of those that were there, while blogs can easily be committed to the searchable public records of the web forever?!? Makes you want to tuck your fingers in tight and log off...
That’s an interesting thought… Imagine a world where our every utterance is recorded, and accessible by anyone during and after our lifetimes. How unnatural. How creepy. How wonderful (if you have wonderful things to say.)
But maybe a blog is more like talking to a therapist, who busily scribbles down your every word to remind you of them later. There is a therapeutic quality to committing these thoughts to writing.
1/07/2005
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