November 2, 2002Blogs are our Avatars
I was mulling over the difference between posting in mailing lists and posting to your own blog. We can communicate equally well in both media; and both media provide for a public record. So what accounts for the growing preference of people to have their own blog? It's simple, the presentation of a person in a mailing list is fragmented, there is no coherance ... their personality is scatterd amoung their different posts. Not so with a blog, one's personality comes through loud and clear. Its like when we go to a party ... we dress up ... we try to present ourselves as we want to be seen, we can do that in our own blog, it's a lot harder in mail groups and in Usenet. I think (hope) blogs will evolve rapidly ... they will become our public persona ... they will become our avatars !! Une réflexion très juste, tirée d'un carnet que j'ai trouvé dans la signature d'un des participants à la liste de discussion group-forming [extrait cité du weblog de Seth Russell] #
