"Anyway, pardon me for being a humanities major and all, but what blogs are about isn't complicated.
Simply put, they're journals, and the category they're changing most is journalism. Here's what I said about it to a Stanford class not long ago in an interview.
Of course I might change my mind after this conference we're talking about. I have no idea, which is exactly the idea."
This is pretty wild. A blog originating from the top of a tree in Nocal, where the author is protesting the cutting of old growth forest by camping out in the canopy. Not your usual "the weather today is fine..." personal blog, to be sure. Worth following.
Met two ladies yesterday who share a job, and it was a surreal experience. They've been doing this for quite a while - each one works three days, and they overlap on Wednesdays. The cool thing is their job is a knowledge worker kind of job, not answering phones or assembling widgets. They've developed all sorts of little methods to transfer knowledge and context to each other at the weekly handoff. But the weird part was talking with them, together. They always say "...we think this...", or "...we feel very strongly about...". They finish each others' paragraphs. They act as a single person, only in two bodies. Weird. Everybody refers to them as EMB, for "Elaine and Mary Beth". There's a doctoral thesis in here somewhere.
Something's been wrong with the Userland news aggregator lately. Nuts. I've come to depend on its distillation of things that interest me. Back to manual surfing.
