Blogpocalypse
I was tapped by Tales of the Rampant Coyote: Why Games Will Save The World to do this meme about posting as if it were your last post.
Well, to keep it brief: if the blogs all go away, all we’re really doing is losing a means of staying in touch. I am lousy at staying in touch anyway. And many of the people I wish I stayed in touch with don’t read the blog anyhow. Go figure.
So my advice, in a world where the blogs are going away, is perhaps the opposite of what you might expect. It might be that you think that I’d sum up my blog with one last game theory bit, one last plea for the future metaverse of online worlds to hold to high ethics, or even one last poem or something.
Nope. I’m going to tell you that it’s about time. Go outside. Call your mother (you did call her on Mother’s Day, right? You can call her again. She doesn’t hear enough from you anyway). Take off your shoes and rustle your toes in some grass. If you have a pond handy, skip some rocks. Gather friends around you and share a laugh. Have an intense conversation over wine, beer, milk, or the beverage of your choice — the kind of all-consuming conversation about deep and momentarily deeply important topics that you used to have when you were young. Whatever your age, there was a time when you had those, and you were younger than you are now, and those conversations meant more.
Honestly, all blogs are is another way to do that. So if the blogpocalypse hits, well, there’s always still the old-fashioned ways.
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I appreciate the allure of blogging, but I find them an even better way to be anonymous, and therefore more insular. Everyone’s got their own moderator powers, and can simply silence dissent. This is taking the easy way out of collaberation as far as I’m concerned, maybe an indication that collaberation wasn’t really desired in the first place. That is what has always troubled me about community sites splintering to blogs. Where’s the conversation? Where’s the collective growth of understanding a group evolves into? Blogs diminish this. Oh sure it’s cute to share images and whatnot, but living by one’s Friends list does not expands ones horizons. Rather, it can give a false sense of stability, in a world that’s just going to keep on changing anyway.
I know you’re different of course, so this is not directed at you 🙂
Blogs don’t need to go away. They just need to augment one’s place in the various online communities, not replace it.
Link?
She’s not in chat.
The world’s not interactive enough, explain please where I can download the add on.
Yeah, the devs really screwed that up! hehe
Do I get stat increase after 10 seconds? Or debate badges? Politician levels?
This is taking too long and I’m not getting any rewards.
If the blogs all go away, we’ll just pump more Twitter messages to each other’s cell phones. We can go outside and enjoy the feel of grass and sun, etc., etc., while still obsessive-compulsively maintaining our online presences! Cake, meet eating.
Josh, I find it difficult to convey anything of substance in a Twitter. 🙂
Raph not good at keeping in touch?
So not true.
BTW, email me someday, dude.