It all started when a friend of mine from grad school created a blog and invited me to post. Immediately, our e-mail communication, which had been frequent, ceased. I initially hated the blog as an e-mail alternative. The blog removed the spontaneity and the privacy of e-mail. Succumb to the blog and you are forced to compose. At its worst, the blog can make a person pose. But, once you get over the privacy related hang ups and begin to use the blog for your own end, it turns out to be a more enduring way of communicating on-line. It's a great archive. I really like merging the images and links with the text. You can edit stuff if there's something in a post you want to change. So, here I am, three or four years after condemning blogs as a pretentious evolution of human communication, imploring my old friends to contribute to this one. Some of you are slow to the post, but you will eventually succumb. Oh yes you will. Thanks Gerry and Confucius for your posts. Confucius? That's a tough one to spell...
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