I was a bit slow getting out of the apartment today, but it turned out to be perfectly timed, as I ran into two of my favorite blogging friends, WIAFLAW (playing hookie from work) and WISRMBAT (on a summer vacay visit), almost as soon as I stepped onto the street. I was actually thinking about their blogs while walking, and was happy to tell them so. We discussed compared visitor stats (I’m losing, which I quickly blamed on a soc blogosphere summer slowdown timed with an academic calendar their blogs are less subject to; they were kindly willing to concede my point). We also talked about running into students off campus, and a variety of other Things Which Can’t Be Blogged, so that’s all I have to report.
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It was all so serendipitous. I really had just been asking Emily if we could call you to talk blogs in person. And I think your stats will pick up as the school year does. I hope mine pick up as the Tour de France progresses.
I know there must be a sociologist somewhere studying the relationship between on- and off-line interactions, trying to prove the counter of the doomsday technophobic stance (“people have become data processors plugged into Machines and have no more Human Contact”) and showing that something like blog-contact can actually be a precursor to, not a dampener of, live action contact. Anyway, I think that sociologist is right.
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