How much time are some of us spending blogging? Am I odd, or do I sense a new topic emerging on the blogosphere - "my spouse versus my blog"?
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OK, it's time to give your news aggregators a rest. Tomorrow night Maryam and I are having dinner with Mike Amundsen and a few other folks who are in town (Mike's the guy who did most of the iBuySpy demo and also the Erablog weblogs that I point to often).
Then on Wednesday my dad, step-mom, and son come to town, so my blogging level will lighten up for a few days. Patrick's with us until July 6, so I'll be spending a lot of time with him.
I know you all think I'm posting too much anyway. My wife is, although she's been reading all sorts of weblogs tonight. I sure wish I could get her to do one, but oh well. I can only lead her to the surfboard, I can't make her surf.
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Last night i had a wonderful experience. My husband who's a die-hard 'company man', a Senior Vice President and head of one of the market research units at JWT India, and who 'not-so-quietly' has been observing my preoccupation with blogging surprised me. He's the kind of guy that wants to see 'immediate action' - a return on investment - a firm contract for instance, as a result of the time i spend networking online and blogging. The more 'intangibles' like learning, growing from connecting with people and minds across the world, accelerating knowledge and change as a result, don't make that much sense to him - its the way he's been conditioned by management school and the workplace.
I shared with him some of the exchanges i've been having with many people across the world - connections made through our respective blogs. I also showed him a few blogs by people employed by large companies - let him have control over the mouse - it was really fascinating to observe how he got more and more absorbed in reading, clicking on links, reading some more ....
At the end of this little session, i asked him three questions :
- would he feel more comfortable now, having read his blog, approaching this person as a potential client , for business ?
- would he feel more comfortable interacting with his own colleagues - not just those working with him directly - but peers across offices countrywide and globally - if they had such blog-like spaces ?
- can he see how such connections - either with a potential client or with a set of colleagues - can indeed help accelerate growth ?
And his answer to all three, with a bit of wonder, was an unequivocal YES !
My blog is a complete mystery to my wife Robin who is a very concrete thinker. If the person is not someone I have met how can they be real.
8:11:55 AM 
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