Are You Blogging About Blogging?
Have you ever been to a Blog and the Blogger introduces the subject of blogging?
Well it happens all the time. Pretty funny to attack this type of an event
considering that is exactly what I am doing here now. Once I was on a website
which had a Blog and most of the topics were about writing and yet, a new topic
popped up about Blog Etiquette and Blog Rules of Participation. Well indeed it
got quite lively and then I stopped to think about the absurdity of it all and I
had to ask the question of the other participants.
"Has anyone considered that we are Blogging about Blogging? I mean think how
ridiculous this is. The Internet is a created reality, it is not the real world
and here we are discussing the dynamics, human behavior and communication
strategies of the very process. It is like writing about writing. You know you
have gone too far when you start writing about writing or blogging about
blogging?"
After we all had a laugh, the conversation went on without missing a beat and
then I thought well, so what? If that is the topic and people wish to
communicate this, why not? So the subject went on discussing what sorts of rules
should be enacted for those participating. Lots of rules had been previously
proposed and some 10-rules adopted in the end and this became the main thrust of
the argument and discussion.
Some rules are necessary of course, nevertheless in studying groups, committees,
free-flow thought brain-storming; less rules is always better and more rules
create bureaucracy and destroy innovation in its purity. So to that point, which
only a few had addressed on that Blog, it is a bad idea to have lots of rules
and make rules about rules.
It is indeed a commonality and given that once you make one rule you have
created a never ending job for yourself and job security to keep re-defining the
Blog rules and thus completely defeat the purpose for which the Blog was
originally intended.
Therefore my point of contention stands and it is amazing no one had addressed
that issue or stepped out of the Blog long enough to see this true nature of
semantics. So if you are considering Blogging about Blogging, do understand how
silly all this meaningless electronic communication can get?
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