dialogue spaces - conversations through blogging
In the past and now I have always preferred using the blog format for conversations with advisees, research assistants, collaborators and now even some family members.
More the monologue blog that emulates the lone journal writing - I prefer the conversations.
And usually I do these by setting my blogs as private. So increasingly - I have less and less to say (if I ever had anything to say) on this monologue public forum here.
Having said that - I am currently re-reading Langdon Winner’s Whale and the Reactor and of course enjoying it all over again.
Blogs are, to me, very culturally western in how they situate the location of discourse in the individual. I find that the dialogue works with blogs only when certain groups of people get together. Strangely enough, I can’t imagine every using a blog for private journaling. I have pen and paper for that. Good that we have diversity in our technology options
See you in Copenhagen?
jason
15 Aug 08 at 2:20 pm
When I said pvt journalling - I meant with people I would normally have “hung out” with in a coffee shop or my living room or gone for walks with and talked endlessly about various things in life…
I do this regularly when I visit India and when I come away these people are not accessible to me except through telephone and email - so we have started to blog in private setting blogs.
I have diaries from years ago where I used to journal to myself - but increasingly find that solitary journalling in itself is not productive for problem solving in life - and worst of all solitary journalling is selfish in a way that does not encourage sharing of insights that might be useful to next generations in working through life situations… so while I do journal offline - I more and more journal in private blogs with select few people:)
yes see you in Copenhagen!
r
cyberdiva
15 Aug 08 at 2:34 pm
and gawrsh - I do need to change the background color on this blog!
cyberdiva
15 Aug 08 at 2:35 pm
Your blog is the hardest to read of all on the world and beyond! But i got you on RSS.
I don’t have any F2F friends that I don’t communicate with online, so I guess I get your point. But for my online friends that I do meet, dinner party and picnics are the rule.
jason
16 Aug 08 at 12:00 pm
amazing - you managed to read past all the fabric?:)
party at Copenhagen!
Anonymous
16 Aug 08 at 12:02 pm