Bloggers are people, we do what we do, and then we blog about it
Recently, I have discovered myself talking A LOT about blogging and raving about my blogger friends to my non-blogging friends. Along the same lines, I’ve discovered that I do discuss a lot of my personal happenings with non-blogging friends on my blog. I was talking to JT about this on the way to Deep Cove, because I was mentioning that I really don’t give much detail on what I do with my friends or what I talk about simply because I think that’s just a tad too private.
While I was recently at Tanya’s, two topics came up that I’ve discussed with other people, particularly the local bloggers. The first one is privacy (which I won’t touch upon on here at the moment, we can talk about it later – the whole issue of “why isn’t Raul on Facebook?“). The second one is the misconception that civilians have of bloggers. A LOT of people seem to think that geeks, bloggers and in general, tech people are just attached to their computers and barely come out to see the sunlight. Nothing further from the truth.
Speaking as a blogger, I can tell you that blogging has just become an avenue for me to meet new, exciting and interesting people and to develop new friendships with them. Sure, I can talk geekspeak whenever I hang out with bloggers, but in general, we just simply hang out. For example, a few weeks ago, I was over at Tanya’s, and there were AT LEAST seven bloggers there (Corinna, Nancy, John, Rebecca, Colleen, Tanya and myself). At the Kingston (a Yaletown pub) we had NerdCamp Patio Edition with Trevor, Derek, Dave, Rebecca, John, Duane, John Biehler, Peter Andersen, Ianiv and Arieanna. All of us are bloggers.
That’s the reason for the title of my post, and that’s something I tell all of my civilian friends: Bloggers are people, we do what we do, and then we blog about it (a spin on the Gossip movie line made famous by James Marsden “people are people, we do what we do and then we gossip about it“). Not to say that blogging is gossip, it’s just a play on the phrase.
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