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From Since you asked, by Cary Tennis in Salon.
Uh… you trying to tell me something?
;-)
On a tangent to this and related to posts I have seen recently on other blogs, it makes me a bit conflicted to be part of the blogosphere. It seems there are three or four main types. Those whose aim is to incite conversation and dialogue. Some are online diaries. Some make it their goal to inform others. And others seem to be soapboxes to express personal opinion. Most are a mixture of some or all of these. My hope is that we are all primarily the first, my fear is that I venture too much into the last. But the question is at what point do we cross the line and become more self-aggrandizing as opposed to introducing topics for discussion.
By the way, I don�t often talk like this in person.