Starting a blog is something that I've been trying to commit myself to doing for some time now.
I should be able to do this (I think) if I can write, have opinions, and spend some time on the
Internet. All these things I
excel at (again, I think) and yet to date I have no good blog to share with the world at large.
Really I feel divided in my online time and wish there were just one place in which I could do all my activities. And I'm not just dreaming here, think about all I have to check and I don't even do that much online:
http://www.magentanation.com/ - okay you cant
log in if you don't work at T-Mobile, but that's just it, I'm an admin of this site for work
www.myspace.com/chadgallup - I actually think
myspace still has an advantage in that it connects you to music and you can fully customize your profile but who has time for it?
facebook - I hate
facebook, but gotta keep in touch
gmail - gotta have personal email
Linkedin - Here is one site that actually makes sense for networking. Its much easier to build connections here also.
hotmail - gotta have somewhere for spam to go
work email - goes right to the blackberry!
GoogleTalk - for Ania lately... and mostly on the blackberry.
Clearspace/
Clearstep - The communities for support of the above mentioned site for my work.
AIM - not really using it anymore but if you
msg it goes to my blackberry
Communicator - Am I working? most likely if
I'm online
...those don't even count others' personal blogs, spaces, pages, whatever. What are we doing to ourselves? In our quest to become better connected, we divide our time on websites because its easier to connect online from the comfort and safety of home. Of course, I shouldn't talk. I actually feel guilt that I don't spend as much time online connecting with friends as others that I know.
Maybe its a
necessary evil, though these new
methods of communications might not be perfect, the
obvious opportunities and efficiencies of living an online life far outpace the simple capabilities of the journal and letters of only a generation or two ago. While it may seem a bit impersonal or removed, and might distract us from real personal time with others, it allows for communications to people
who we might not always reach as well as we'd like to.
Now we have a circumstance where if you truly want to connect with others, family, friends, business colleges; sending messages to the online ether may be the best way we have to share our fleeting lives with those people. So I guess I have to say that if your reading this, its very probable you are important to me, I might respect you, love you, or maybe I don't even know you at all. For a writer its almost like putting a message in a bottle.
Sheez, with so many
possible audiences, what will I write about?
