Blogging about people who are Blogging about people who read Blogs Hillary Johnson has a very interesting definition of blogging:
"Most people think of blogs as public diaries kept by the kinds of egotists who make loud, inappropriate political comments at family barbecues or hog the discussion at book clubs, or wannabe journalists who post inflammatory stories with no fact-checking...."
She goes on to explain why she reads the business blogs she reads. Business blogging is another of those things I would look in to closer if I was a little more money minded and a little less artsy. As it is, I'm content to spend hours contemplating the possibility of mentally controlled microbes altering the surroundings in a very Harry-Potter like way, but 15 minutes on the was businesses work and I'm out like a light. On a more functional level, I guess it's that I love to work to make things happen, but I hate to work to learn to work.
That, and I'm still not really friendly with the business majors. They scare me a little.
I love how Hillary goes on to describe the "blogosphere" (I still can't admit that word into my own vocabulary. It has to have quotes around it so I don't feel silly using it):

The blogosphere is a vast, anonymous, and surprisingly intimate place inhabited by all manner of exotic creatures--or is it just that blogging brings out the exotic in people? From Hornik's official bio I know that he has a degree in computer music from Stanford and another in criminology from Cambridge, and earned his J.D. from Harvard, magna cum laude. But from his blog posts I know that he has a thing for sumo wrestling, and that his 9-year-old dressed up as Danny Zuko from Grease for Halloween.

In an age when everyone is talking about information overload, this may seem like more than one wants or needs to know about any total stranger, but I find quite the opposite: This is exactly the kind of information that helps me decide whom I really want to listen to. Yesterday I decided to contact a possible software engineer for my company based solely on a joke he posted about mad cow disease, to wit: "Why are the cows so mad?"

By the way, that story was linked on The Entrepreneurial Mind, then appeared on Nashville-is-Talking's sidebar, then was snatched up by BillHobbs before I got around to it. Isn't our little community great?  ¶   0 comments