blogging

06.05.08

Blogging isn’t a one verb activity blogging, dougw | Comments
I want to clear up a common misconception. Blogging isn't writing. To simplify blogging as a composition exercise ignores the majority of the work. It's a bit like saying a road trip is 100% destination and 0% journey. Hardly. Most of the memories on road trips start and end well before and long after the waypoint. Similarly, while it may seem obvious that blogging is writing -- just like driving seems like the obvious time-consuming nuisance between a road trip's start and destination -- it is convenient to overlook the long path of ...
04.12.08

Why you need a blog blogging | Comments
From James Surowiecki in The Wisdom of Crowds: If you talk a lot in a group, people will tend to think of you as influential almost by default. Talkative people are not necessarily well liked by other members of the group, but they are listened to. And talkativeness feeds on itself. Studies of group dynamics almost always show that the more someone talks, the more he is talked to by others in the group. So people at the center of the group tend to become more important over the course of a discussion. ...

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