“Nadie sabe por qué la corriente nos llevó a determinada isla y no a aquella a la que soñábamos llegar. Y para mi asombro, otras personas estaban buscando aquella isla y tal vez la encuentren en algo de lo que escribo. Una le cuenta a otra: una cadena misteriosa se expande. Y aquello que el escritor juzgaba ser un trabajo solitario se transforma en un puente, en un barco, en un medio por el que las almas transitan y se comunican. A partir de ese instante ya no soy un hombre perdido en medio de la tempestad: me encuentro conmigo mismo a través de mis lectores. En algunos raros momentos, puedo mirar a algunas de esas personas a los ojos y comprender que mi alma ya no está sola."
Un día mirando reviews en Goodreads, me encontré con este libro, que me pareció interesante y después de un par de meses lo pude conseguir; entonces como suelo hacer con algunos libros que leo, acá les dejo una selección de apartes del mismo que me gustaron, porque de una u otra forma tienen que ver con puntos de vista similares que tengo acerca del mundo de los blogs. Bueno basta de introducciones, los dejo con el señor Biz Stone, no sobra anotar que copio los mismos únicamente con el fin de compartirlos con ustedes y que no tomo ninguno como crédito propio:
• Blogger is a server-based system, which means users do not need to install anything on their own machines. Ease of use and a strong, early-to-market brand made blogger ground zero for blogging revolution.
• In the last five years, blogging has emerged as an important form of democratic self expression and continues to grow in significance as the web mature and expands from computers into wireless devices and beyond.
• In 1999 Blogging really happened. A bunch of easy blogging tools were released on the web, including Pyra labs’ Blogger and Userland’s Manila.
• Today there are millions of blogs on every possible topic published by journalists, politicians, proffesors, teenagers, parents, fat people, skinny people, homeless people, dead people when someone transcribes a diary, celebrities, fools, geniuses and probably some guy dressed up like a Sultan in his onion head hat.
• We all wear masks and a blog can hide, show or exaggerate who a person really is. It’s not a matter of creating a persona versus telling the truth about oneself, because the truth is in the posts.
• Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the internet and the World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland. With enough perseverance and personality you could create a seminal site.
• ¿Do you think weblogs will replace mainstream media?
Probably not. I think You could aggregate weblog content to produce a decentralized version of a newspaper…I think that the relationship between weblogs and mainstream media is probably more symbiotic than competitive.
¿Will the blog bubble burst?
Sure. But it’ll be like most internet bubbles: the real bubble is in attention. Napster got a lot of attention a couple years ago. That bubble has “burst”, but there’s actually more filetrading going on now than there was then.
• Blogs have reacted to the needs of the world and have grown in a pattern similar to that of the web itself. At first a playground for geeks, later more popular with the appearance of web-based tools, an industry following when millions of people began flocking to the new medium.
• Kimmy Ho Interview:
¿Why do you blog?
I blog to share events with my friends, to store links and information for future reference, document certain events, but mostly just for fun.
• Steve Jenson Interview:
Good Bloggers tend to write to an ethereal “audience” whether or not it exists. Their post make sense without having you to read the entire blog. We’ve helped created a whole generation of archivists and cataloguers who are perfecting the art of writing a review.
¿How is blogging changing the web? ¿Society?
Something I really appreciate about blogging is how it has focused the web away from being a billboard for crappy products and instead has turned it into a canvas for a group mural. Some pieces are very practical and some very abstract.
• Social networking sites are fun, and there are lots of people who do find love, friends and jobs by participating in them. Still something seems to be missing. Once you’ve persuaded all your friends to join and you have a virtual network numbering in the hundreds of thousands ¿What are you supposed to get out of it? ¿What if you already have enough friends and a job?
• Comments
Take it outside: Don’t get into nasty argument on your blog. That’s like inviting people over to dinner and yelling at your spouse in front of them. The proper way to deal with a corrupt comment is to delete it and its place put “Comment removed: off topic. Or something equally antiseptic. If you must get into a fight, take it outside – do it over E-mail.
It’s your house: It’s your blog; you own it and you are in charge of the content. Remember your blog is a web proxy for you; if there is a comment in your page that you feel uncomfortable publishing under your name you should go ahead and remove it.
• You should know how to behave when it comes to leaving comments yourself. Sometimes we forget. Be civil, make the point you want to make, but remember you are in someone’s else’s house. If you want people to respect your point of view, be thoughtful and proofread your comment.
• Once you sign up and publish your first post, you have become part of a new media frontier. Your voice has been added to the character of the blogosphere. For a unexplored territory, it’s pretty forgiving and you’re allowed to make mistakes – just avoid making enemies. Blogging is a cathartic Exercise, a business-related enterprise, a group endeavour or a one person web newspaper…If a blog is the online version of you, then the blogosphere is the online version of our world, our home. As Olympia Dukakis remind us “Don’t shit where you eat”.
• It really doesn’t matter if our blog is focused in a hobby, your work, politics or just what you do during the course of the day Blogging is information sharing and the more you research an share, the more you gain expertise in your area of interest, even if that area is only “things that interest me”…Bogging is a everyday practice of searching, thinking and writing. There are many benefits to this exercise.
• The future of peer to peer file sharing is not music or movies –it’s information. Getting web enabled cell phones into developing nations and showing people how to use them as a broadcasting tool could be transformative. The self organizing power of a hyperconected population it’s frightening to regimes that are used to the illusions they have control over the information that citizens receive.
• HTML, is one of the more frustrating things about blogging when you first get started. Bloging is no longer just for geeks, but no matter how WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) your blogging software is , there will always be a little bit of HTML that you’ll want to do.
• The artifacts you include in your sidebar, the font you pick for your posts and the descriptions you write in your blogs settings are all extensions of your virtual self. People read and publish blogs because they recognize that there is a way to put themselves into this virtual world and interact within it. With every new sign-up to Blogger our word gets a little smaller and the web gets more character.
• Blogging beats traditional content management systems because blogs are thousands upons thousands of dollar cheaper that any other way to disseminate information and they are easy.
• It’s fairly obvious that blogging works best for everyone, including students, when there are topics to write about that capture the imagination and spark a passion.
• Blogs are digital entities springled throughout the vastness of cyberspace, yet they created their own connectedness. The blogosphere is the networks of blogs that lives within the world wide web –a web within the web–but it’s more than document and hyperlinks. Behind it are many individuals who combine to form an aggregated entity with its own force; it is a new media ecosystem with a complex social culture based on knowledge, entertainment, and the sharing of ideas.
• Like an ant colony, the blogosphere is a world of individuals, each doing its own thing. The pattern that emerges from this chaos is nothing short of fascinating.
• Blogging kickstarted a revolution in hyperconnectivity and communication via the web – it was the spark of life that internet was missing…From the Blogosphere a new plane of existence has arisen –like a good version of the matrix –where we are all enhanced by unlimited access to knowledge and experience and had the ability to add our own.
• Blog: Noun. A personal website that provides updated headlines and news articles of other sites that are of interest to the user, also may include journal entries, commentaries and recommendations compiled by the user; also written Weblog, Web log Verb., To compose and publish a blog entry
• Link Whore: A blogger who will compromise every possible principle he or she once had in order to get more bloggers to link to him/her. Also: link slut.
Juanma es Collective Soul
"I need a sign to let me know you’re here
All of these lines are being crossed over the atmosphere"
- Calling all Angels -
Pd1: Me parece ridículo cuando la gente le pone camisetas a los perros
Pd2: Me parece aun más ridículo cuando les hablan como si fueran niños chiquitos.
Pd3: Mi hermano va a ver en a RUSH en vivo, creo que va a ser muy feliz.
Pd4: Y como le hago para no embobarme contigo?...
Pd5: Me parece muy mal cuando la gente le mete una N al final a los verbos, cuentemeN, diganmeN, esperenmeN, etc. etc. etc.
Pd6: ¿Alguien me puede decir que chingados le están haciendo a la 26?, la tienen vuelta mierda.
Pd7: No me había visto la última película de Terminator y me pareció entretenida.
Pd8: Creo que este año también le voy a ir a aquello de leer como mínimo un libro por mes.
Pd9: Encontrar un libro que supere la trilogía ‘Millenium’ va a ser complicado.
Pd10: quiero vacaciones overseas.
Pd11: que vaina tan comoda los Crocs.
Pd12: Me contaron dos chistes muy malos, pero como yo me divierto con minucias:
• ¿Qué hace una Rata en una esquina?...Esperando un Rato…
• ¿Cuál es el colmo de Batman?...Que lo Robín
Pd13: Demasiado bueno que ya viene el primer puente del año, ¿no?
2 comments:
Yo aun voy por el segundo de Millenium y si se anima por acá a la orden!
El blog como extensión de mi cabeza y sus locuras!
Feliz año =)
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