It FEELS like I've been blogging... or something...

So I guess I haven't blogged much in a while, yet I feel very immersed in blogs in general, since we've started one at work and are trying to figure out how the whole commercial blog thing works. (add "blog" to the end of our address to find it). so I'm reading blogs about copywriting, blogs about home decorating, blogs about blogs, blogs about marketing and SEO... It's pretty amazing really. Makes me wish I had something I actually was passionate or knowledgeable about on a regular basis that people also wanted to hear about.

Two of my blog heroes are:

copyblogger

and

design*sponge

Copyblogger cuz he's so damn good at what he does - his posts are always a great example of what he's teaching in that post - it kind of blows my mind actually.

Design*Sponge cuz she's just so enthusiastic and fresh and generous and honest and supportive of independent designers.

Oh, and let's not forget No Impact Man. The guy in NYC who is trying to live sustainably/off the grid with his family for one year (at least). I'm totally in awe. It's also opened my mind to the concept of how we're so disconnected from each other, that it's no wonder we're disconnected from the environment. We're all plugged in to things that keep us from interacting in real life.

Now, I have a lot of long distance friends and family, and I've found the internet to be a blessing for keeping in touch with them. I bet I would not be nearly as close to some of my college friends, and perhaps would have lost touch with them altogether if not for the internet. Might not even be married right now if G and I hadn't been able to get to know each other online from across the continents, quite honestly! And I love being able to video conference with his family, and I think the whole "on demand" concept of media is wonderful. So that's great. I lurv teh intarwebs! but it's so hard to recognize where that line crosses over from amazing tool for connecting to addictive time-waster for hiding behind... Blogs, flickr, podcasts, MySpace, everyone is generating content, but who is listening and responding? Is it just going out into a void? It's kinda crazy...