Blogs as Conversations

Posted by Marshall on November 18, 2007 | Link It

I was reading a post by Jeff Jarvis today about How personal should a blog be?, I guess with a tear, thought I only met Jeff once, close to a year ago at AlwaysOnNYC, here in New York.  I'm sorry for the loss, and I can relate to the lost.  As Jeff Jarvis quotes in his post about How personal should a blog be?

"..A blog is different. Pardon me for restating the overstated, but it’s a conversation, a conversation among friends. It’s different from publishing. And, of course, it’s personal: one person talking among others. And so privacy has a different impact. That’s a lesson young people teach us often these days in their attitudes toward privacy online: In this conversation, you can’t get something in return if you don’t give something of yourself. And in this case, I don’t mean the return of condolences. I mean the return of experiences and ideas and viewpoints. I can’t get those from you, which I value, if I don’t give something myself first: my experiences, my thoughts, and the context for them. It’s personal, a blog.

That's what I do at Webmetricsguru.com - and pretty much - any place I write my thoughts - I share my life and experiences as a conversation - hopefully, a two way conversation.



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11/20/07 @ 8:27 am

I used to have a blog on my commercial site http://www.cognation.net but I felt stifled about what I would write there.

My private blog http://www.collins.net.pr/blog has lets say ‘colourfull’ language from time to time and I’m a lot more expressive about my opinions - so basically I pulled the cognation blog but post a lot more work related info on the collins.net.pr/blog posts.

I’m guessing about 50%+ of my work contacts either know about my private blog or have contacted me for work because of what I’ve written but there is still that fine line.

Besides 90% of my friends are all geeks anyway so they all read the geek ‘personal’ stuff anyway.

Cheers,
Dean



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