Gearing up for a Greenbelt panel discussing our approach to blogging. So far it features me, a grungy old maverick who just likes the look of his own words on a page, Maggi, whose blog has become a focus for serious discussion of ‘emerging church’ issues, Dave, the man responsible for the world-famous Dullest blog in the world and the vibrant online community focussed on The Wibsite, it will certainly be varied and potentially quite interesting, especially with Paul and Kester also involved.
I started theorising about blogging by returning to a lovely few lines in Kevin Kelly’s 10-year Web retrospective in Wired 13.08:
At [the] heart [of the revolution launched by Netscape’s IPO] was a new kind of participation that has since developed into an emerging culture based on sharing. And the ways of participating unleashed by hyperlinks are creating a new type of thinking - part human and part machine - found nowhere else on the planet or in history.
An emerging culture based on sharing. I like that. And it is something along those lines which appeals to me about doing this thing we do.
August 23rd, 2005 at 11:38 am
All blogs are read.
The Watchers read them.
They read silently,
But they read with wisdom,
Knowing that all will be well.
Blogs are the positive effectors
Of an influential new
Planetary nervous system.
It is important, therefore,
That all blogs are read
And none is missed.
Not one is missed;
Not one word.
Each is read
With careful attention
And complete understanding.
There are people
Whose job it is to do this.
And they do it.
Pay close attention
To your dreams, therefore,
And stay free.
All will be well.
August 23rd, 2005 at 1:48 pm
hey - thats the fourth time today i ran into that guy (last post)
the panel sounds great - mind if an aging blogger comes along?
could you say where and when?
August 23rd, 2005 at 7:02 pm
There’s a few blog things on the programme but this one is Sunday at 3.00in Cedar.
August 30th, 2005 at 10:11 pm
just wanted to say hello, and that I enjoyed the blogging panel!
dave
September 6th, 2005 at 1:03 pm
Really interesting how sinister non-bloggers clearly still find the genre. There was some what I can only describe as paranoid conversation going on around me at the end of that panel, despite the range of people involved. The other bloggy events fell through my GB net, though. I’d love to hear how they went…
September 6th, 2005 at 2:56 pm
ahh . . well . . i did one of the seminars for the less-than-sinister people and it was called “The Spirituality of Blogging” - i made some notes here