Comments on: The power of the blog https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-power-of-the-blog/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-power-of-the-blog David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Sun, 16 Apr 2017 14:18:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-power-of-the-blog/#comment-3218 Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:28:23 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1314#comment-3218 This is my favorite blog. I learn about linux, trains, servers and those who serve. I would like to hear from Jacques Pierre CousteauVermouthBouillabaisse le Raunche de la Stenche and R. Collins Farquhar IV more often. They have an unusual perspective on life because of their great wealth.
Dave’s funny, too.

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-power-of-the-blog/#comment-1091 Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:25:46 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1314#comment-1091 I read blogs for two reasons:

  1. To know what’s going on in my friends’ lives
  2. To know what’s going on in communities of interest

I blog for the same reason. Not because I think I have some profound insight. Not because I think that the world needs to know that I lost a sock. Simply because it’s my online journal, a record of my thoughts and happenings in my life that are of interest to me. If people feel they want to read what I write, great. If not, no skin off my back.

I particularly enjoy reading planet powered sites such as planet gnome and planet debian which aggregate the blogs of members of the community. It’s a great way to keep up with what is going on in the lives of a community’s members.

]]> By: Anonymous https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-power-of-the-blog/#comment-1090 Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:49:41 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=1314#comment-1090 I miss knowing the details of the people’s lives I interact with. That’s what makes someone on a computer screen a friend as well as a resource.

In the heyday of the WWIV BBS’ you could log on and at most interact with a few hundred people non interactively. Some of the best friends in my life have come from that timeframe — when you don’t know what a person looks like, only what they think, you tend to create longer relationships.

The problem is that the Internet is now considered a technical resource. You use it to find an answer to your problem and that’s it. You don’t consider that there’s a person behind the answer, and that person might make a valuable general resource.

I’d love to complain more but another project to be finished by the end of this week just landed in my email box. That leaves 9 to do before tomorrow.

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