Friday, May 02, 2003

 
And here it is, some seven months later... that miserable Two Flies (now expanded to Four Flies) ate this blog for breakfast! Very sad, since some of the most interesting ideas I've had in a long time were getting stockpiled here. It seems I might only have the energy for one blog. I try to limit that one, which I share with my mother and my sister, Sandy, to things FlyLady plus cooking and lately, the memory blurbs, and I barely find time to do that daily, usually late at night. But it's surprising how much of my life IS taken up by those quotidienne things. I need a little more balance in my life.

What prompted me to return here was something that simply did not fit into FF: a musing on Neil's blog this morning about blogging itself; seems William Gibson thinks blogging is "incompatible" with the process of writing a novel, which got N to wondering about it. As he did so (in his unfailingly cheerful and charming way), I felt the world go slightly darker, like that scene in Bab5 "Signs and Portents" where Delenn first meets Morden and the triangle appears on her forehead: the world suddenly grew slightly darker, as if the color were draining out of it. And I'll bet I'm not the only one who felt that way-- he's going to be deluged with teary testimonials begging him to continue. I imagine he will-- he's been at it for over two years, and has written a shitload of stuff of all kinds since then. But still, it is troubling to realize how addicted I've become to reading his thoughts on a daily basis. Blogging may be the most significant thing that's happened on the Net since the web. I'm sure I only scratch the surface of it here, as I'm not part of any network and don't provide any method of feedback or dialog. And I still don't understand RSS.
posted by Suzy 8:29 AM