I’m thinking why I encourage some of people I know to start a weblog. The answer is simple: I don’t know easier way to stay in touch, to maintain and develop an intellectual and emotional connection with someone over the distance.
It’s like chatting with friends over a drink or with a professional acquaintance at a conference: not goal-oriented, open-ended, easy and fun, creating shared context without any deliberate effort. And RSS feed works much better than relying on a chance to meet or remembering to call, to mail, to plan a meeting: it make sure that people you care about are on your radar. It creates some kind of awareness, weak-tied connection that is needed to make joint fun or work possible when the time comes to get closer.
That’s why it’s more difficult for the people I care about: I’m very selfish constantly suggesting that they should start a weblog :)
Tags: blog ecosystem, networkingArchived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2003/12/17.html#a872; comments are here.
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