Lisa has an insightful post today about the nature of blogging. She says:
On the blogging landscape you will find mansions and hovels, fortresses and castles, shopping malls, business, galleries, theaters, humble homes, gardens, quiet places of meditation and amusement parks. There are institutions of higher learning, and galleries of talking cats.
And she ends with this lovely analogy:
If no one came to visit, I’d still do it. It may be one tiny house, but it is still part of the greater landscape. It’s part of something much larger than itself. It’s one tiny point on a Seurat masterpiece. It’s one tiny synapses in the growing collective mind of the blogosphere.
Her words reminded me of what I believe about the blogging community at its best, and about the whole concept of human community: it can show us a place, high on a desert plain, where the streets have no name…
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Me 10.05.07 at 12:01 pm
I like the last sentence she writes. Of course the idea of synapses always fascinate me.
HeyJules 10.05.07 at 1:13 pm
Love that last sentence, too. Well said!
lisa 10.05.07 at 2:26 pm
Thanks very much for the link, Tess. I’m glad you enjoyed my post.
Elaine 10.06.07 at 5:51 am
Thanks for writing this, Lisa, and thanks for linking to the post so we could read it, Tess.
Yes, very well said. I think it expresses why more than a few of us have progressed, perhaps with fear and trembling, from reading blogs, to de-lurking and commenting, and finally adding our own structures to the blogging landscape.
Barney 10.08.07 at 7:29 pm
It’s a great metaphor and gives us all good reason to continue what we’ve started (or to start what we have yet to do by way of blogging).
Thanks, Tess.