living, thinking and writing
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Monday, December 09, 2002 God, give me time (or will) for blogging! I guess I'm lazy, and I'm glad until now Alex is the only one knows I started my blog. Kara this morning sent me the link of Haloscan, now I can invite comments to my blog. But do I really want any reader? I don't know. That means this blogging thing becomes a part of routine: write something! people will come to read! And I might be more picky to my blogs day by day: does it look good? Is the topic intriguing? And then comes the part I'm feeling the least confident: Do I write in awkward English? Alex joked with me the other day that he could not believe I had taken so many computer graphic design courses in Duquesne, "and you make a homepage like that?" Well, I guess I'm never really into this kind of self-expression on line. I have no objection to technology and technology-assisted communication. But suddenly, these things fully occupied our lives. We used to read only one or two newspapers per day, one or two magazines per week, but now we can't resist to read or watch all media on line, as well as other people's weblogs or homepages. We used to only need to concentrate on the flow of thinking, and convert them into plain text, but now we have to be busy on inserting link on every word, as well as adding new functions and nicer stylesheets into the conde. I'm glad to have an acdemice adviser so devoted to the idea of blogging, which gave me a good reason to spend more time on it- much more than I've spent on any online communication in the past. I did it now mainly to keep up with his research interests, and his way of organizing academic and administrative affairs. But on the long run, I still put my trust on better pay off: first, I could definetly polish my English wrting, while I might sharpen my critical thinking (the idea of people might read it will push me to do better); second, I would try to blend into this blog community when I feel a little more comfortable and confident, and as a result I will be able to come across more great or active minds; Finally, I surely wish I could make it as one of my research area- according to S curve of diffusion, I might fall into the "innovator" or at least "early adopter" catogary with regard to adopting web log! And the other things I find is, once I start to write something, I can't stop it. I always end up with some long and wording chunk instead of a delicate and cute piece. Maybe that is another reason I'm reluctant to start every time? posted by lmeimei @10:12 AM| permanent link| | |
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