"In a way, blogs serve as oral history," Bill Schreiner, vice president of AOL Community, said in a statement. "When it comes to sharing blogs and reading other people's blogs, we like to connect with people, learn about their lives, and find common ground. There's no pressure to write about a particular subject or keep blogs maintained a certain way, and it's not necessarily a popularity contest."That's kind of cool--the idea of blogs being an informal history. Wouldn't it be awesome to be able to read the hyperlinked thoughts of our great-grandparents? I wonder if Blogger's archives will stay online for our great-grandchildren to read today's blogs?
Another thing I like about the online world in general is the ability to connect with people I probably wouldn't otherwise be able to. For example, a couple weeks ago, I met one guy from Arizona face-to-face who I "know" from bbs.chinadaily.com.cn. He's thinking about moving up to Seattle, and I tried to show he and his wife around town. That's cool! I regularly read my friend Dan's blog; he lives in Hangzhou, China. From time to time, I also read some Singaporean blogs. A couple of my friends back in D.C. keep up with my family's happenings through my blog. It's all about connectedness!
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Hey, thanks very much for linking to me there, ts, but you goofed it up and the link doesn't work.
That is weird to think about somebody reading the stuff we write 50 or 100 years from now. . . sometimes I find it hard to believe that anyone today bothers to read the junk I write!
taken care of, dan. well, you can always rest well knowing the internet police are regular readers. (joke, sort of.)
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