blogs...

blogs...
Well I can say that I was really late to the whole blog world. I remeber for years that I would hear about blogs and I thought meh...not for me. Alot of friends would write in blogs and just pour out their souls. I find them great if you love putting all your life out there. Which I have had friends who would do so. I kind of got turned off about them because a few years back a friend of mine had a disagreement with a colleage of hers which turned into a huge situation. He decided to put his feelings on the situation out there on his blogs and then started to leave comments on blogs of her friends. Something that turned into the right to free speech turned into my friend taking the person to court. I feel perhaps we need to realize what we put out on the internet can get so badly construde. Something that may have been a joke can come out sounding more angry because the tone of our voice is lost within the typed words. But as a writer I found out only recently about all these blog based literature cirlces. I felt a bit lost with this movement like it happend underneath my nose. I was use to going to book stores and finding groups of people in some corner disscusing books. What I found funny recently was that now writers write fictional characters in blog forum.
Business wise I think this is great. You can get feed back and give feed back on projects. What worries me is what if coworkers ,such as my friends, decided to start attacking each other on blogs. Is it something that can be used against that person in a work enviroment or is it something that is left at home.