Comments on: Name that blogger

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 28 May 2003 22:45:34 +0000

I guess I agree with the idealists: there’s nothing stopping anyone (with access to the technology) from blogging.

Perhaps the percentages are reflective of those involved in the Computer Science related fields… university CS departments are notoriously white and male.

But it doesn’t have to stay that way!!!

By: Bene Diction

Bene Diction — Wed, 28 May 2003 19:20:17 +0000

Hi Fred:

I hope you’ll get positive reasons from others in your comments section. Blog on!

By: Fred Peatross

Fred Peatross — Wed, 28 May 2003 14:20:43 +0000

Space doesn’t allow one to share all the reasons and possible reasons bloggers blog…so I listed four realizing there could be more. But the 3rd one (Need to share. There are some who genuinely like to “share,” and this is one way) in the list is positive and covers a large number of bloggers.

By: Bene Diction

Bene Diction — Wed, 28 May 2003 09:30:17 +0000

I wonder if some bloggers are textual, and some are textual/visual.

When the gender issue has come up in my experience this past year, it has been about an individual or two, and quite oppostional and reactive.
It has not been explored much with this specific god-blog group.

I agree, squeezing bloggers into four reasons doesn’t work, Fred’s final question is a good one, and one that has been asked before….

Economics…some of us blow that out of the water.
All I have to blog with, has been a gift, I hold all things loosely, so I guess I’m not the norm in the affluence department. I’m not alone in that.

I am genuinely interested why an individual blogs too. Blog on!

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 28 May 2003 07:24:13 +0000

Yeah, people blog for those four reasons. But I think there’s more. I, for one, blog to continue some conversations and start others. I also post random stuff I find on the ‘net that I find interesting that I think people who read my daily stuff would find interesting. And yes, I “share.” Unfortunately, my interlocutors are a bit passive (if they are there at all).

I think your other questions are insightful. I have purposely not published a picture of myself so as not to reveal “age” and “color” so directly. Better to keep people guessing.

I think that the “god-blogosphere” is made up of those who have the money to own computers, the computer literacy (read “education”) to publish through blogger or somesuch other publishing tool and the leisure (permitted by some level of affluence) to read, ruminate and respond to life via blogs.