Justin Hall, the first bloggerComputers have always tempted some members of the human race to hang around them ad infinitum ad nauseam. We call them geeks. Then a while ago along came blogs, blogging, and people like us who are called bloggers. Jane over at yarnstorm is taking a week off to read her eyes out of her head. Susan at Pea Soup is making apologies for her absence. I find that I have had to take time out not only for the pesky computer repairs but to get on with real life. But why apologise. The blogosphere is not real life - it is a description of life, it is a form of communication with similar people at the other end of the ether but it is not real life. Real life has family, kids, craft, books, art, travel, food, recipes, houses, decor, gardens, sewing, clothes, decorating - all things we can see and feel and touch and taste. And now I discover that Justin Hall, the very first blogger of them all, has given up blogging and is busy getting on with his own real life. His real life is comprised of writing articles about digital culture, making short videos, editing that wonderful gift, Wikipedia, and he's a graduate student in the Interactive Media Division at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television.
Brocante Home is passing on the idea of a "no computer" day: having a blog free day - and tips on how you might do it.
If you want to catch up with some very good articles on the world of blogging and put it all in perspective, I refer you to posts over at The Eagle's Nest here and here.
1 comment:
It is interesting to note your last two entries... Both speak about life in their own ways...
For me life is so precious - not to be wasted for even a second... We can never regain what we have lost... As I have got older I understand the significance of the things my grandparents said in their time...
My fasination with blogging has begun to wane... Nothing makes up for the tactile experience... I have enjoyed the interaction of blogging and the opportunity to 'mix' with people who are like minded even meeting some from the net... I now however want something else... I am sure, that while my blogging days aren't over, they will gradually fade away... For everything there is a season...
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