Checking in.
Blogging as "keeping in touch with other people." Also forming community and having company.
People appreciating each other in a public meeting format. Grace is moderating. How we love her!
Why did you start a blog in the first place? Asks Mary. An interesting question.
Ep: letters to the editor were too terse. She wants to be more verbose with the same subjects. But not to build community.
Mary: What is "community blogging?" In a meeting where people want to keep in touch. Or a town blog, like a Deadwood-wide blog.
Elke: Why compelled to write in public? She has no idea.
Mary: Blogging is in its infancy. But read them for years before starting her own. FAscinated by the minutia of someone else's life.
Badger: Kept journals for years and years. Since she was a kid, five or six. Three or four going at one time. Book of dreams, current, poetry journal. Web pages she updated often.
Mary: wrote diaries as if someone else would read them. Even when the diary had a lock.
Em: Memoirs as "posterity." A cedar chest being opened by grandchildren. The Mormons. It's into every aspect of your life. Culty.
Mary: A planned monthly meetup to write together, maybe a central coffeeshop? Elke: Yes! Yes!
Mary is going to Las Vegas. She is an "online poker widow." But will spend the weekend with her husband alone. What a concept!
Emily: Looking for a job. Anyone have one for her? Blog more and blog better. Keep up with other people's blogs.
Badger: Fun and happy. Overstimulated lately. Physically injured from overwork and no stamina. Distracted by blogs, putting so much energy in, wants to figure out how to make it more job-like and possibly more money involved somehow. Teach blogging classes? Local rec center. Community college class. Face book and MySpace. Wants to talk about the theory of it more. It's much more complicated than a class about "talking on the phone."
Everyone murmurs in agreement.
Grace: Lisa Canter says that the first phase of blogging is over. Now we will talk about "content." Whaaa?
Badger: Means that it will be a new class of professionals, more like journalism. How the writing changes on the BlogHer site because they know advertisers are looking. Does not want it to turn into stupid magazine articles.
e says: Jeneane Sessum is talking about RSS feeds, the mechanical nature of same. she doesn't want to be "fed", she wants to visit people. (the linked post and one several below it.) she wants personal voices.
People appreciating each other in a public meeting format. Grace is moderating. How we love her!
Why did you start a blog in the first place? Asks Mary. An interesting question.
Ep: letters to the editor were too terse. She wants to be more verbose with the same subjects. But not to build community.
Mary: What is "community blogging?" In a meeting where people want to keep in touch. Or a town blog, like a Deadwood-wide blog.
Elke: Why compelled to write in public? She has no idea.
Mary: Blogging is in its infancy. But read them for years before starting her own. FAscinated by the minutia of someone else's life.
Badger: Kept journals for years and years. Since she was a kid, five or six. Three or four going at one time. Book of dreams, current, poetry journal. Web pages she updated often.
Mary: wrote diaries as if someone else would read them. Even when the diary had a lock.
Em: Memoirs as "posterity." A cedar chest being opened by grandchildren. The Mormons. It's into every aspect of your life. Culty.
Mary: A planned monthly meetup to write together, maybe a central coffeeshop? Elke: Yes! Yes!
Mary is going to Las Vegas. She is an "online poker widow." But will spend the weekend with her husband alone. What a concept!
Emily: Looking for a job. Anyone have one for her? Blog more and blog better. Keep up with other people's blogs.
Badger: Fun and happy. Overstimulated lately. Physically injured from overwork and no stamina. Distracted by blogs, putting so much energy in, wants to figure out how to make it more job-like and possibly more money involved somehow. Teach blogging classes? Local rec center. Community college class. Face book and MySpace. Wants to talk about the theory of it more. It's much more complicated than a class about "talking on the phone."
Everyone murmurs in agreement.
Grace: Lisa Canter says that the first phase of blogging is over. Now we will talk about "content." Whaaa?
Badger: Means that it will be a new class of professionals, more like journalism. How the writing changes on the BlogHer site because they know advertisers are looking. Does not want it to turn into stupid magazine articles.
e says: Jeneane Sessum is talking about RSS feeds, the mechanical nature of same. she doesn't want to be "fed", she wants to visit people. (the linked post and one several below it.) she wants personal voices.
posted by Spanglemonkey at 1:02 PM
4 Comments:
oops, i put that in the wrong plase! :)
Liz here from I Speak of Dreams I figured out yesterday that Woolfcamplet was happening today, about 10 minutes from my house. I felt (and feel) too shy to ask if I could come, too.
Maybe next time I will be bolder.
Oh my god, Liz! No shyness allowed. Speak up next time.
Note: I did not say Mormons are culty! That's somebody else's commentary!
And LIZ. Wish you had spoken up! We're expecting you next time- no excuses.
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