If it weren’t for my wife patiently waiting for me to come to bed, I would probably write a novelette tonight. Lots of stuff on my mind and I’ve got the itch to sort it all out.
In another amazing example of how the web can sometimes take you where you never expected to be, I got pleasantly sidetracked tonight while looking for stuff on my new Sharp Zaurus.
A web search for an answer to a technical problem brought me to Michael Erana’s weblog. I don’t know Michael from Adam, but I instantly got drawn into his writings about his day. He is a fellow geek, but one with great writing and photography skills. Not only that, his pages held the answer I sought.
More searches led to other weblogs, such as Doc Seare’s weblog. Doc is the senior editor for Linux Journal magazine. This led to a link to RageBoy’s blog (also known as Chris Locke). Don’t know the guy, but got caught up in his excellent writing. Back on Doc’s site, I found Joi’s page. which led me to Blogger in Baghdad, known as “Where is Raed?”
human shields tourists recently kicked out of his country. It seems we are not as different as some would have us to believe.
The potential of the web is not to connect people to the traditional news sources – it is to connect people to the newsmakers themselves. Here is a link to every side of the debate: now go make up your own damn mind.
The web allows us to connect person-to-person. No censorship. No taking things out of context. In the digital world, the letters and spaces that compose this entry are as legible in Australia (or Iraq) as they are right here. (Ok, ok, legible for English readers, maybe. But you get the point.)
The fun is in the chase, n’est pas?