Category Archives: Blogging

Time to wake up…

On the eve of the swearing in of President Obama, I have been taking stock on what I call ‘The Online World’ and my role.
LOL – as if I really have any role, more likely that of a virtual lizard, skittering across a virtual rock, my tiny talons scrabbling for purchase as I slide [...]

Someone asked me “The Benefits of On-line Social Networking ?”

Seeing Facebook, Twitter, Bebo, Orkut, Flickr simply as marketing devices misses the point on many different levels. Web2.0 is less about networking and more about online communities. There is tremendous potential in this, but also many pitfalls.
The only way to get traction from the WOM potential is to the spend time not only getting familiar [...]

Doris Lessing thinks ‘blogging’ is not writing !

I am with TechDirt on this one:
“Furthermore, as she goes on to lament a lack of interest in books as a necessary core for a new generation of writers, she mocks “blogging” which is actually helping more people write more than they would otherwise. It’s an elitist stance to suggest that just because it’s short-form [...]