16 Nov 10 Write and Read or Talk and Listen?
Some people prefer to read, some prefer to listen. Some like a mixture of the two. So, I thought I’d try to add some audio the The Eye.
What do you think?
08 Dec 08 In The Year 2525 If Man Is Still Alive
Blogging has, for the majority of us, moved past the personal diary stage. You don’t really want to know what cereal I had for breakfast, when I showered, or the color of my socks do you? OK, you do – email me afterward then.
So Why blog?
I’ve heard this question many times.
I’ve heard a number of answers too. Some say that services such as Twitter or Friendfeed largely eliminate the need for blogging, as we can all interact in these services without setting up and maintaining a blog.
Now there are only so many minutes in a day (yes I know it’s 1440). I know I’ve been blogging less lately, as I’ve been spending more of my time in Friendfeed. Too much time, sometimes. However, it’s not wasted time, by and large, as there are many good links posted in there, and I learn new things all the time (as we all do).
Whoa! Hang on a minute…..
If there are links posted in there, that means they’re coming from a web site, and some of those links are blogs, right? Yes of course. Many links are to YouTube videos or mp3s at last.fm perhaps, yes, but there are many links I get to news sites, and blogs too.
My take on it is that if you wish to write longer articles, opinions, share news or a hobby, a blog is still the best place to do this. You can write what you want to, about what you like, and then share it on the social media networks with those you think might be interested in reading your diatribe.
Of course, if you’ve nothing to say, then blogging is perhaps not for you, but there’s few people that truly have nothing to comment on at all.
I’m not much of a science fiction fan, but one thing that does fascinate me, and it’s this. If we look back 500 years or so, communication was still basic, and storage of communications even more so. Only the rich could read, and write, afford to buy books, and so much history is based around the elite or ruling classes.
However, if we were in 2525 looking back to now, what a rich library we would already have to look through to see how the common person lived an every day life. How interesting it will be to see what we all got up to, and how we lived back here and now.
On second thoughts then, perhaps I should blog about my breakfast cereal and my socks after all. Even if you’re not interested in the minutiae of my life my great-great-great-great grandchildren might well be.
Tags: audience, blog, blogging, cereal, diatribe, followers, information business, media networks, mixture, mp3, news sites, personal diary, share news, snippets, socks, twitter, Zager And Evans
16 Feb 08 All Quiet
I haven’t posted for a day or two. I’ve been busy. I’ve also been busy in places away from the computer. It’s kind of difficult to post then. I’ve started using Jott, and that allows you to blog from your cellphone (or any phone) by dictating a message. You get up to 30 seconds. It’s fairly good, although not perfect, as sometimes words aren’t recognized, and you have to spell them out. All within your 30 seconds.
However it is a useful tool for sending quick reminders or even email acknowledgements or quick reminders to friends, family, and colleagues while you’re on the move. This kind of thing can only get better as voice recognition gets better. Apparently Jott runs on a mixture of computer and human transcription.
By the way, don’t dictate anything too rude or it won’t get transcribed, so best not to rant down it at an employee or at the cable company when it’s gone down yet again.
Tags: cellphone, colleagues, friends family, jott, mixture, reminders, voice recognition
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