One year from now, will I remember that on this day I helped save one of my company’s partners $1.2 million? Probably not – because I haven’t written it down (well, now it’s written down isn’t it– bad example ). But will I be able to know, in an instant that I had a conversation with Michael Walton about blogging - because it is now written down - forever.

And thanks for contributing.

I think that what Jim is saying is that you can use a blog to express yourself globally. You can post thoughts, dreams, pictures and the like; all refecting your interests, and let the world know you exist.

You make use the web to put this information ‘out there’ so that others with similar interests us might see it and respond. Thus, creating two way communcation (or 3-way or more) with other people around the world.

You can think of it as the web’s equivalent of a social gathering. When you go out somewhere and meet a new person, you first start out by saying little things like “Hello” and “Hows the weather”. Eventually, you start talking about things that interest you both and you establish the beginnings of a relationship.

With a blog, you can post your interests and thoughts and someone who reads it may respond to your postings with their own posting, or even refer to yours with their own blog. This creates a form of communication between the two of you.

Of course, you don’t get the direct, immediate response you would get from a face-to-face meeting. And of course, the entire web experience is much more impersonal.

But you have to think not of interacting with a cold, simple web page, but instead think of yourself as interacting with the human being that is expressing him or herself begind the web page. Thinking like that makes the whole experience more appealing to me.

And I think also that one of Jim’s goals in life is to replace the entire web page experience with an immersive virtual reality experience.

In his mind, we would virtually see, hear, touch, and smell things in other parts of the world at any time. We could also interact and change them at will. It would, in essence, be the same thing as a web page, but about a million times more interactive.

I think that’s enough for my first blog comment. Cya

(oh, and by the way, you’ve just contributed to the relationship!)

I think it is some kind of addiction.
I fully support the idea about contribution and sharing… but the relationship part is what I do not fully understand.

Thanks for the reply… (how much time you spent on typing that out)