Blogging gets groggy

awake & linking : We Are Not the Only Ones | posted by Shaun O

 

ThoseAwake has been quiet.  And I haven't been blogging much lately.  In fact, I haven't blogged too much in the past year, and it's been a year that I thought I'd be doing MORE blogging.  I guess that happens.

I can think of a few reasons for it - the most clear reason being poor internet access and poor computing machines! :(  We've been saving money and mouching off of a wireless feed at home, and working on old comps = slow going.  And, at work, I haven't felt compelled.  

But there's been some bloggy-talk going on about Emergent recently, and while I identify with a lot of what is being tossed around, perhaps I most identfiy with this interesting take on so many previously active bloggers now slowing down, taking breaks, and stopping altogether.  

Josh Brown has a new post about it, and writes - 

This is not to say that social media is bad.  But that the norm for the medium has slowly moved from being about the conversation to being about “the idea of conversation”. We like to talk about conversation and church more than we like to practice it.

(And, okay, the "practice church" message isn't new - it's what church is supposed to be.)

*I resonate with this thought about social webyness in general.  These days, I don't read as many blogs, don't blog as much, and don't listen to as many podcasts partly, I think, because some of it began to somehow focus itself on "the idea of conversation."  Twitter and Facebook are less and less appealing too.  

And this is a tough reality now that we live in Reno and I don't have nearly as many face-to-face, good LIFE conversations as I did before.  Why are my good blogs decaying when that's what I was depending on out here?  :)  I think the answer will be fun.   

For now, books and snail-mail.  Let's figure out a good way to converse.

Also, follow Josh's link to other blogs, like TSK, to read about their reasons for slowing up or stopping.

Interesting times of change.  It will be good to keep questioning technology - is this useful???

Comments

[Nate]

I've been reverting back to books myself. And just "logging" items via the web rather than discussing or thinking too much (most of the time).

Not much else to add at the moment though. Need sleep.