Boundaries Blur When Building Bridges
[Editor’s Note: This post is long and I had reservations about putting it up, but Luke promised to buy me some Whole Wheat Fig Newtons and I agreed to post it in its entirety. It’s also LOL funny]
The Internet has totally made geography obsolete. Well, for socializing, anyway. And every day broader broadband and wider wireless networks make the world smaller and smaller. Before long, tech savvy people were posting their prose, poetry and thoughts on the web in the form of logs. Then along come these lightweight content management systems that make posting notes on the web way easier; and soon everyone is a publisher with their own web log (web-log…blog, get it? Seriously, how many of you didn’t know that?)
And that’s when the magic happens. That’s when boundaries became really loose, borders became stretchy, and geography blurred. The social aspect of the web came alive. Instead of speeches and soapboxes, people were engaged in conversations.
There are two people I personally know who have had their lives change dramatically by the social aspect of the blogosphere. One is me, the other is Paull Young. Of course, there are a myriad of people whose lives have changed more than mine by the social network of the Internet; bands making it big on MySpace, desperate people meeting in strange bars, that lonely woman who orders that special trinket on eBay, and that fool Aussie embarking on a world blog tour.