Blogging and Trust.

Steve Ivy follows up on my hope that Jim Fawcette would start weblogging.

Good point! I know that I trust people who weblog more than I trust non webloggers. Why? Because I get to know their philosophy. Their point of view. Day after day after day. Look at how Dan Shafer and I get along. I know more about Dan than I know about most of the people I even work with. Seriously. How many people do you work with that you have passionate discussions about things with? [The Scobleizer Weblog]

I am finding that this is true for me as well.  I have formed an opinion based on months of observation about a group of bloggers that I feel comfortable with. Trust is engendered because you have access to a quite complete perspective of the other. How often at work do you know how a colleague really thinks? You may know his opinion on a project. You may know his opinion of a person but I seldom was let in deep enough at work to understand the full person. Blogging gives us that chance to see below the surface. [Robert Paterson's Radio Weblog]

I had deep conversation with a good friend about the war due in part to her reading my posts on the war. The conversation went from what is happening in Iraq to how we think we came to have different views on the situation. It provided both of us a socratic moment to step back and look at how we came to see the same real event differently.