Erik Mona Has a Blog!

[Mark]

I am writing down some politcal beliefs and stashing the message under a rock in the park near my house. More on that later...

 

[JacktheRabbit]

I am writing down some politcal beliefs and stashing the message under a rock in the park near my house. More on that later...

Do not worry. If it ever approaches the time when you consider telling everyone else those views I will bulldoze the park and burn down your house to keep it from happening.

 

[Mark]

Do not worry. If it ever approaches the time when you consider telling everyone else those views I will bulldoze the park and burn down your house to keep it from happening.

I knew I could count on you for a moderate response.

 

[JacktheRabbit]

I knew I could count on you for a moderate response.

Well I would at least ring the doorbell once to make sure your not home.

 

[WizarDru]

So why not email? Why not irc or another chat program?

IRC suffers the same problems as phone calls. My friend in Massachusettes and my friend in SoCal aren't likely to be on at the same time....and we're not spending a lot of time in front of PC to try and organize it.

E-mail suffers from being a push-pull relationship, and not terribly conducive to group discussions. Plus, blogs are more like forums: people I know sometimes drop in and comment, and folks who know me tangentially sometimes join the discussion and stay. Further, e-mail offers much poorer support of pictures and links, IMHO. I can't direct someone on a forum to a private e-mail, but I can point you to a blog-post like this:

 

[billd91]

Could someone tell me what the purpose of a blog is?

I see it as someone who wants attention. I don't read blogs because I don't care what you have to say to someone you don't know. I have friends I discuss politics, religion, and sex with.

Is that what it is? Just someone who is an attention nut?

For some people, yes. Some people like to project their lives through some kind of exhibitionist venue (remember JenniCam?). Blogs can be rather like that.
They can also be general forums for like minded people to share interesting sites and thoughts.
They can be used to keep in touch with separate friends.
They can also serve as a creative outlet.
They can even serve as a place for obsessive fan-boys to go and virtually stalk their idols.

There's a whole host of reasons for blogging. The thing is, blogs are pretty well accepted as being just about anything and everything that the blogger feels like talking about at the time. Anyone going to a personal blog, announced anywhere, has no reasonable expectation to come into things they don't want to hear about because there's no reasonable expectation that the subject matter will be limited to (or away from) any single thing in particular.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

I'm not a big fan of political blogs...

Love 'em. I read 7 or 8 different blogs, including 1 or 2 on the 'opposite' side, several times a day. Total junkie.

...but some old media folks sure are spooked by 'em.

Heh... and at least one of my daily blogs is dedicated to this observation.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Love 'em. I read 7 or 8 different blogs, including 1 or 2 on the 'opposite' side, several times a day. Total junkie.

Ditto. I have about 10 RSS feeds just from blogs I frequent daily, and about another 30 that are infrequent visits. I find new and interesting treasures all the time. I'd imagine we probably share a few blogs visited.

Right now, I thank heavens for Safari and it's built in RSS reader. Every 15 minutes it checks for new updates on all my favorite blogs. Lets me trim down my blog browsing time significantly.

 

[Bobitron]

Thanks for the link, Erik. Glad to see you were behind the ethergaunts, cool creatures. I like that concept art a bunch.

 

[Olive]

I don't read blogs because I don't care what you have to say to someone you don't know.

And yet, here you are, talking DnD with a bunch of people you don't know...