Bloggers, What Are We Doing Here?
October 18, 2005 Posted by Amy Hall
What is blogging? What are we doing here? What is our purpose? What will blogs accomplish in this society? I ask myself these things as I spend hours each week producing posts that will then take others away from work, families, and who knows what else. Is the blogosphere worth the time it consumes? The information we pass on could probably be found somewhere else, so what service are we performing for our readers? As bloggers, we need to know the answers to these questions if we're going to persevere.
At the GodBlogCon, John Mark Reynolds talked about blogs as “Platonic dialogue”–interactions both within blogs and between blogs that can only be understood in the context of the entire blogosphere on any given day. We're not developing carefully crafted theses that will sit on a person's shelf to be studied and examined for years. Our thoughts are brief, passing quickly into the archives, soon to be forgotten.
In a way, this medium is similar to talk radio. Blogs, like talk radio, respond immediately to the issues of the day, are shaped by those who react, and then move on to confront the next approaching idea, dilemma, or event.
And people watch and listen.
They see how we react, they see our thought processes, they see our values and beliefs applied to every new situation, they see how we treat people. They watch, they listen, and they learn. Whether for good or for bad, they will take on the qualities and habits they see in us.
Bloggers, as you see your work constantly fading away, are you discouraged because you're not sure what you're accomplishing? Don't give up. We're not producing information, we're teaching people how to live. And that is a worthy pursuit.
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- GodBlogCon Day 1
- Young, Restless, Reformed Bloggers
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October 19th, 2005 at 2:44 pm
here here!