Steve Bowdrick writes in the Guardian (UK), that the best blogs leave room for the reader and other bloggers to complete, refute, or expand on the ideas expressed:
Weblogs produce a class of conversation that is, if it works, of the highest quality, fuelled by the open-mindedness of the blogger and continually refreshed by provocation from readers.And here I thought I was just being lazy and half-assed, posting semi-baked theories and idle inklings without ever really thinking anything all the way through. Turns out that's a good thing:
This is where weblogs can approach the quality and texture of real conversations. Great bloggers leave lots of gaps and readers rush to fill them, producing insight in the synthesis of the original words and the reader's response. The whole really is greater then the sum of the parts.
5:30:46 PM 
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Let me be the last one on my blog to link to the upcoming "Live from the Blogosphere" panel/event in LA (February 15).
Looks like they'll be all wi-fi'ed out, so we're expecting immediate instablogging throughout, OK?
categories: metablog
4:51:27 PM say what []
This Reuters graphic published in Yahoo! News - Politics yesterday speaks volumes:
categories: salonika outspoken
9:27:39 AM say what []
Last night a creepy wind blew west from the hills, in strange pulsing gusts, dying down to nearly nothing and then growing almost instantly to gale force, whipping shrubs and vines against our drainpipe and windows, stripping new buds from plants fooled by the false spring we've been having around here lately, tossing the top of our compost bucket around the backyard and buffeting who knows what else. It was hard to ignore, disturbing, though what can you do about nature?
As we lay in bed, trying to ignore the shrieks and whistles outside the window, I said to B that it was a witch wind. She said that was a sexist term, so I amended it to ghost wind before discussing the fact that there could be male witches and noting that I had recently read that 'wicca' originally, ironically, indicated a male witch.
This morning I woke up feeling dry as a bone.
categories: x-syndicate
9:17:08 AM say what []
