Comments on: Bloggers Meet-up & a Little Red Boat (clap clap)

By: Biff

Biff — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:35:09 +0000

Shooting the mental breeze…

When I blog, am I saying “I am proud of my thoughts”?

By: Biff

Biff — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:32:16 +0000

Incredible. The Reverend Robert Shields…I wonder if it will get released? Limited Edition comes with free nose hair on page 169,341,765.

That would truly make a great script. I bet someone’s already bought the rights to the entire diary though. If they haven’t, I’ll chip in for it. I can afford about £17.

I hadn’t thought of the cognitive reason behind my personal blog very much, but I would agree it’s definitely a memory aid. Sometimes logging in to Blogger is quicker than finding my notebook, especially at work.

Also, being a more considered spurt for it’s public nature, the process of writing a blog post out (however quickly) can also aid in the development of the thought in a way completely different to that of a private journal. Libby told me that. You were right Libby.

Awesome.

~biff~

By: Case Studies & Styles of Blogs « Authentic Blogging

Case Studies & Styles of Blogs « Authentic Blogging — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:16:08 +0000

[...] Be you. That’s all I want to say right now. And as Shel Israel dropped into say on a previous post: “In Naked Conversations, as I recall, we emphasized that short blogs were more popular and [...]

By: Libby Davy

Libby Davy — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:57:21 +0000

Oh my lord… that is reflection and documentation gone completely mad! I see a film script coming on…

By: Frances Aldrich

Frances Aldrich — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:18:56 +0000

It was really interesting to meet members of the Brighton Bloggers group and learn about their diverse motives for blogging. Thanks for a good evening!

As someone with a background in cognitive psychology and an interest in memory I was particularly interested in hearing about the way some of those present use their blogs as an extension of their own memories. Of course people have been keeping journals as a reminder to themselves of what they have seen, done and said for hundreds of years, but digital technology makes a journal so much more searchable and useful for this purpose. But to me there was something intriguing and rather unsettling about comments I heard along the lines of “Keeping a blog means I can Google what I thought or did.”. It’s not only that people had opted to share their blog’s content with anyone who might find it helpful (very generous spirited!) but to me there’s something disquieting about the idea of using a computer-based search tool to explore the previous contents of one’s own mind. Not that being intrigued, unsettled and disquieted is bad… So, thank you to the Brighton Bloggers for that!

And just a thought: would the Reverend Robert Shields have blogged if he could?

By: shel israel

shel israel — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:32:24 +0000

Thanks for the mention, Libby, but I’d like to make a small correction. In Naked Conversations, as I recall, we emphasized that short blogs were more popular and that bloggers who posted brief articles and then posted often, would score well in rankings. We certainly did not intend to say what blogs were MEANT to be. They are meant to be whatever the author chooses them to be. scoble and I tried hard to tell stories about why blogging was a good thing for business. We had lots of lists. But we are two incurable rule breakers and did not mean to set them for others.