I don’t mind being called a blogger, but
that’s not really what I am: Jackson Miller picks
up a riff from my “business
blogging” presentation in Nashville the other day: my
prediction that the term “blog” is here to stay, but the term blogger
will have a shorter life span. (Are we called
emailers?)
Here are some ways he
describes a few tools of
communication:
Phone
- “A one-to-one / small group, private communication
tool”
Email – “An asynchronous one-to-one / medium group,
semi-private email”
Blogging – “An asynchronous one-to-group,
public communication
tool”
A blog is one of
many ways I communicate. If I were a carpenter and I used a hammer in
my work, I wouldn’t be called a hammerer. I am a father and a husband
and a business owner and a friend and a church-member and several other
things. I use a blog to communicate, but I also use flickr.com/photos/rexblog
and del.icio.us/rexblog and
kaboodle.com/rex
and a phone and email and IM and iChat
AV and several other things. I don’t mind being called a
blogger — in fact, I like it — but that’s not
really what I am.
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