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  1. Why blog?

    05/05/08 05:15:16 | 0

    I don't want to sound like the 2,000-year-old man or anything, but this isn't the Internet I grew up with. I came of cyber-age on one of the first online services, called GEnie, where the "roundtables" consisted of a message board, chat room, and file library for all sorts of niche interests, just like we see today with certain forums, blogs and websites-but not really. The difference is that those were true communities, and that really has nothing to do with the technology or how it is used. It comes down to the people, and the shared interest in a subject that brings them together under one (virtual) roof. The fragmentation I see today has all but killed real online communities. It reminds me of the Flash kid's complaint in The Incredibles: if everybody is special, then nobody is. Frankly, I don't have the time or the inclination to go running around like a demented trick or treater to everybody's front door, particularly when (let's get real) most...
  2. A Day Off

    03/23/08 06:21:31 | 0

    Chris's rule of blogging, learned from previous attempts to keep one: if it gets to feeling like homework, SKIP A DAY. Don't put up some dumb meme or a youtube video. There's nothing personal about that, and your friends should be reading your blog for you. Otherwise you're just adding to the static.

    So... Attention Cattitat readers.
    I went out to a concert last night. I'm tired, I'm taking the day off.

    See how nice can be out here in cyberspace when those of us who are adults talk to each other that way instead of taking our cues from the 12-year olds?