Meanderings and Ponderings
I've been examining the 'Blog' factor of the Web
recently. In actual fact, I've been wandering the Web pretty much at random
each morning, starting with SLASHDOT and
TECHNORATI and going where the
bit-winds (bit-blasts?) push me. I've even joined several of the groups and
started contributing. In some ways this is therapy - get things off the chest
so I don't turn into a road-raging maniac or deranged postal-worker surrogate
or something :)
In other ways, especially at
www.wikipedia.org I'm giving back
something to the Internet I take advantage of on a daily basis; something I've
espoused since getting connected in the early '80s to UseNet.
I've been told by friends that they consider my
Digital Rag to be pretty much the same as today's
weBlog - a place where I record mostly my thoughts (sometimes those of others)
on what I've been doing and what concerns me in my day to day life. In fact,
if you take our family site, my business site
(where the Digital Rag
Too now is) and this one together they really add up to quite an
interesting (well, at least to me) section of the history of a web-enabled
family in the age of the Internet. The Digital Rag starts back in
July 1994 and covers the trials
and tribulations of running Canada's first commercial ISP (not the largest in
1994 but started in 1986) during the incredible growth period when the public
really started to climb on board.
Prior to this, many people did their maunderings in
various UseNet News groups, virtually all of which are archived in various
locations on the 'Net. These were not particularly personal, but instead were
the beginnings of the "discussion" aspect of Blogs where friends and enemies
comment on your writings. I've done my share there too, particularly in the
van.general, bc.general and can.general groups. Lots of interesting
discussions. I've also given back to the 'Net in many of the comp. groups by
answering questions of newbies and discussing problems and potential solutions
(to the questions of porn, copyright, warz, ISP liability and all sorts of
topics of interest to the movers and shakers of the new connected world.
Some Interesting Links
