Tuesday, October 22, 2002

Blogs 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 !!. 1:15:38 PM    comment []