Comments on: CaringBridge.org and the lesson of event-driven personal publishing http://www.RexBlog.com/2007/08/15/17118?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=caringbridgeorg-and-the-lesson-of-event-driven-personal-publishing Rex Hammock's Blog Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Paige Clancy http://www.RexBlog.com/2007/08/15/17118/comment-page-1#comment-41626 Paige Clancy Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:29:43 +0000 http://www.rexblog.com/2007/08/15/17118/#comment-41626 Thanks, Rex, for such a thoughtful post. I, too, have been an avid reader (user?) of CaringBridge and runfordori.blogspot.com. So much so that when I finally saw Jim in person, I embarrassingly admitted that I felt like I had been "stalking" him. Those feelings of course are trumped by the incredible benefits provided by these sites/technology: constant connection with friends who are facing difficult challenges and life-changing events. As I wrote in a comment on RunForDori, the really amazing thing, to me, is how this level of personal communication about illness, struggle, friendship and recovery has a substantial positive effect on so many of us "users" (I'm going with that term). Users have been educated about leukemia, inspired by Jim's race training, compelled to support the fight for a cure, reminded about what really matters in life, etc., etc. For me, life is just downright better because of this communication, and (... here goes ...) it's way cooler than the iPhone. Thanks, Rex, for such a thoughtful post. I, too, have been an avid reader (user?) of CaringBridge and runfordori.blogspot.com. So much so that when I finally saw Jim in person, I embarrassingly admitted that I felt like I had been “stalking” him. Those feelings of course are trumped by the incredible benefits provided by these sites/technology: constant connection with friends who are facing difficult challenges and life-changing events.

As I wrote in a comment on RunForDori, the really amazing thing, to me, is how this level of personal communication about illness, struggle, friendship and recovery has a substantial positive effect on so many of us “users” (I’m going with that term). Users have been educated about leukemia, inspired by Jim’s race training, compelled to support the fight for a cure, reminded about what really matters in life, etc., etc. For me, life is just downright better because of this communication, and (… here goes …) it’s way cooler than the iPhone.

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