Friday, April 4, 2003

GEEKBLOG---I am in a customer's office, working on a computer and thinking about the role of weblogging (otherwise known as blogging.) My friend Bob Scoble has turned his blog into quite a source for information on technology and technological change. He has quite a readership. I guess I could do that or make mine about cycling, trains, unions, photography or some sort. Mine is more personal, like a journal, sorta but less personal. I think a lot are like that. Many are much more personal than mine. More dirty laundry on the Internet. It's like editorial writing. Perhaps more personal. It is like a newsgroup, withbentries able to be replied to and thread of information growing. It is something new. I don't know if weblogging is a wonderful new thing or just a diversion. I guess that depends on how it is used. 2:46:42 PM    comment []

PERSONALBLOG---Last night I had a great IM conversation with my dear old friend Janet. We typed and sipped wine together thousands of miles apart. We typed about life and the world. The world seems so strange these days to me. Sometimes it seems as though lunacy has assumed control, not just on the international level but on the individual level. I have friends who are in such turmoil. I see people making what seem to me to be insane choices in realms of life that run the gamut from how they drive to how they direct their lives. I am writing this on my Palm Pilot on the light rail, on the way to work. I am thinking about the post 9/11 world. I wonder did we all lose our sanity as well as our innocence when the towers fell? 10:16:14 AM    comment []