Comments on: Bums on seats http://www.fayyoung.org/?p=38 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:31:23 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Administrator http://www.fayyoung.org/?p=38&cpage=1#comment-248 Administrator Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:41:11 +0000 http://www.fayyoung.org/?p=38#comment-248 You\'re right Robert, I take the point about the newspaper coverage – that\'s my extension, not yours! (I do think the Law of Triviality could apply in this case though – there\'s often an unhealthy symbiotic relationship between press and politicians) I really like the idea of the Smallweb – and a blog that connects people in the same tenement. Or even the same house. Two years ago I took my family Christmas present list into a shop where the attendant couldn\'t stop laughing at the idea that we had emailed our requests to each other. Now I know we are not alone. You\’re right Robert, I take the point about the newspaper coverage – that\’s my extension, not yours! (I do think the Law of Triviality could apply in this case though – there\’s often an unhealthy symbiotic relationship between press and politicians)

I really like the idea of the Smallweb – and a blog that connects people in the same tenement. Or even the same house. Two years ago I took my family Christmas present list into a shop where the attendant couldn\’t stop laughing at the idea that we had emailed our requests to each other. Now I know we are not alone.

]]> By: Robert http://www.fayyoung.org/?p=38&cpage=1#comment-247 Robert Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:54:47 +0000 http://www.fayyoung.org/?p=38#comment-247 Yes, its great whn you see someone has linked to your writing, and then taken it off in a new angle. I've heard the phrase 'hive mind' used about the blogosphere. Gradually ideas and consensi emerge, and no-one knows quite where from. Its also slightly annoying when someone makes a connection that you did not make (e.g. Parkinson's Law also applies to newspaper coverage). <em>But blogging is increasingly important as a way of connecting and informing people who live and work in the same town</em> My friend Michelle Kasprzak called this the '<a href="http://michelle.kasprzak.ca/blog/archives/108" rel="nofollow">Smallweb</a>.' Yes, its great whn you see someone has linked to your writing, and then taken it off in a new angle. I’ve heard the phrase ‘hive mind’ used about the blogosphere. Gradually ideas and consensi emerge, and no-one knows quite where from.

Its also slightly annoying when someone makes a connection that you did not make (e.g. Parkinson’s Law also applies to newspaper coverage).

But blogging is increasingly important as a way of connecting and informing people who live and work in the same town

My friend Michelle Kasprzak called this the ‘Smallweb.’

]]>