A friend commented to me the other day that my boycott of blogging personal thoughts and experiences is making it a pain in the ass for him to keep abreast of my life. Now he actually has to, like, talk to me to figure out what I've been up to. Blogging really is a much more efficient way of keeping up with your friends. From the blogger's perspective, instead of retelling the same story, or sharing the same thoughts several times over with multiple friends and family members by email or over the phone, you just post it once to the blog and it's there for everyone to read. From the blog reader's(*) perspective, you benefit from additional information that might not have been shared with you in the old fashioned world of direct communication. Of course, if you are reading this, then you are probably already clued in to the superiority of blogging and I am preaching to the choir. If you are reading this through an RSS aggregator, then you get extra bonus super geek points and I am really preaching to the choir.
(*) - Is there an official term for this? I was thinking 'blogee' but that's more like the subject of the blog, not the reader.
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Yes, I too was wondering what's going on in your life. I agree with your post. However, you still didn't tell us what's going on in your life! :)
Readers are bloggees. Subject matter is The Blogged.
I'm all for having more personal blogged, but you already know that.
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