the BisonBlog

hey, Erik, link us up to the Kornkven family blog--if you don't mind sharing.

kinda nice to stop by and see all the action. Sybil got me into this blogging mess a year and a half a go, and we formed a little blog team (me, Sybil, Cindy Nichols). i am interested in seeing if the team grows.

can others answer me these four questions:

What does blogging enhance or extend for you (or, as blogger suggests, is this your brain on the web)?
What does it retrieve for you (an old habit, an old passion, brought back)?
What does it obsolesce or push aside (do you watch less TV b/c you blog, etc.)
Taken to an extreme, what happens (or will happen) to your blog (will it become your life, instead of reporting on your life? will it overwhelm or bore you?)?

I like to ask these questions of all technologies--you are free to borrow them. I did.

When I think of blogging, I mean, when I m actually in the Act, I can't help but picture a big white room with a circle of statues all propped in plush lounge chairs with thoughtful expressions etched on their faces, some of them are smoking stone cigarretes and pipes, and every once in a while, one of them shudders to life, stands up and speaks into the silence. Since this is how i picture it, it makes some kind of sense that I feel a sort of stage fright every time it s my turn to come to life, even though the stage is a digital one, and the ears are all stone. But any time there is room for stage fright, there has got to be room for it's oposite, which is that certain thrill of speaking without fear amongst sympathetic listeners. So the point i guess, is that maybe blogs have taken the speaker off the stage, but in my case at least, the process of communication follows the same predictable course. And this technology that is supposed to be bringing us together, only makes it possible for people to hear each other without coming in contact...

Here's to Blogging!

Sorry I haven't been on here more, Jen. Thanks for keeping up the blogging spirit.

I am currently taking a break from my homework load for today. Ugh. Sometimes I wish it all would complete itself.

I suppose I should get to my thesis work more. And actually, when I was searching the other day for weblogging research (for a project in another class) I found a WHOLE bunch of good good stuff. Like this by someone who researchs with the HarvardBlog people.. I told someone the other day that I wish I could just open up my head, have a chunk of it removed, and hand that in as my thesis paper. It would probably contain enough information to add up to 50 pages worth. Yup, probably.

Jen, again.. thanks for blogging. I can't guarantee that people will blog on here everyday (although THAT would be FABULOUS), but I appreciate you taking the time to do so. And that information you found on working is great.

P.S. In order to see what others are writing, just click on Manage Posts on the page where you'd normally type in your entry.