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Halfway dare I say?

April 13th, 2008 10:32 pm —  113 views

Though I haven’t blogged in a few days, I think about it a lot. Not just this blog, but blogging in general. This social networking the Internation affords is changing how we relate to the world.1.

Seems of late my NADD only allows for quick peeks at the Twitter cloud, the monitoring of no less than four email accounts, various projects, analyzing statistics, and reviewing comments. You know, blogging, forums, IRC, bulletin boards, telephone, telegraph, mail, smoke signal, courier, messenger…are all related. Darwin would agree I’m sure.

Keep in mind that I’ve just spent weeks2 reading research articles on blogging, motivation, and social influence. And I must say (Ed Grimley style), the blogosphere is a complex thing…if one can even call it a thing. More like a continuous thought. Can’t help but wonder, what’s next?

As I drift a little at the end of this semester3 and my focus on the Internation wanes, I find myself checking GoogleReader less often. The entries I haven’t read stack up.

Had my last group meeting for the semester today. One more time this semester will I be walking across campus to class. Next Friday is my last lecture (actually 3 hours of student presentations).

This weekend was pretty tame. We ran errands yesterday, had my group meeting today, watched the Tigers getting spanked…and now I’m hammering on this keyboard. So are the days of our lives.

Image: A self portrait from last Sunday. Taken on my way to a group meeting. Sunny springtime.

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  1. I just made that up. Internet + Nation = Internation. A nation of Internet citizens. Interzens. [↩]
  2. Read or review just 5 academic research articles on blogging and you’ll start to look at the phenomenon quite differently. [↩]
  3. I have two classes that by some bizarre coincidence, do not have exams. [↩]

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  1. Melanie on April 14th, 2008 8:58 pm

    “Internation”? I love it! I can’t believe no one’s ever coined that phrase before, actually.

    And yeah, the Tigers? Having a bit of a rough patch, I’d say!

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