blogs, attention, and working in public

March 20, 2006 at 5:56 pm | In technology, humanize, note to self, friends |

Last night I had dinner with my friend Sharon.  She’s been my orientor in the Humanist Movement for almost 9 years.  We were talking about quite a few topics, some of which I’d like to get down here to remember myself, and also to share with my readers (both of them).

  • What I’ve learned from Phil Cubeta and Jon Husband about blogging and how it lifts up visibility of a whole range of connected ideas when people are writing about them in a way that allows interlinking.
  • How the Humanist Movement has the potential to have dozens, certainly, and more likely hundreds or even thousands of blogs.  Not only could these be a great way to share information with each other and our respective friends, but would also lift up visibility for all.
  • How Sharon’s sister knows a ton about stem cell research and how corporations are attempting to own everything, thus leading to poorer health for all.  She needs a blog, I say.
  • Sharon herself needs a blog, as she works on what her next phase in the Humanist Movement is going to be.
  • When we’re “doing our work” in public, others can look over our shoulder and add value whenever they have the time, ability and inclination.  It would be very valuble for me to be able to see what Sharon is up to.

So I’m setting up a blog for Sharon and plan to write 2 versions of a white paper about the benefits of blogging, one for Sharon’s sister and one for the General Assembly of the Humanist Movement.

4 Comments

  1. Blogging for Social Cohesion

    … working in public to connect ideas and people within a larger movement. Dave Weinberger once wrote, in the early days of blogging, “We are writing ourselves into existence.” Now, for some of us the hope to to write a “we” into existence, one li…

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  2. […] Earlier this week, I wrote in blogs, attention, and working in public about how we can drive visability to the issues, causes and actions we care about when we work on those issues in public, and link to others do the same. That post was linked to from Gift Hub: Blogging for Social Cohesion. I’m linking back to that post ot illustrate the point. We’re having a conversation on two (so far) blogs. Very cool! […]

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  4. These trackbacks and the pingback don’t show up on the recent activity section. I’m wondering if that’s because they’re not actual comments. This is to test that theory.

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