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October 20, 2004
Blogosphere intrudes on real life
The world of blogs is insinuating itself into real life:
First, the pastor, in Sunday's sermon on 1 John 5:21 (streaming audio here, MP3 download here), quotes Scott Ott's parody obituary of Jacques Derrida (which he found linked from this site).
Then this morning, I stop into the office of my son's school to speak to the school secretary. A friend from church is there, too -- he has kids at the school. My friend mentions that in a few weeks he's going to New York on business, as he does from time to time, and that he hopes it will be possible on one of his visits to meet Dawn Eden, whose blog he discovered shortly after I discovered it and reviewed it here. So here we are in the office of a Christian school in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the topic of our brief conversation is not school or the baseball playoffs or Monday night football or even the election, but a remarkable woman (his phrase) who writes a fascinating blog, 2,000 miles away near New York City.
But the blogosphere isn't pervasive in the real world yet. As my friend left, and I turned to the school secretary, I thought of explaining what that was all about, and I realized that I wouldn't even know where to begin to build a frame of reference that would allow me to explain why these two school dads were speaking so fondly of some strange woman in New York. So I said, "she has a website," let the sentence trail off, and proceeded to talk about the reason I came to the office.
UPDATE: Dawn responds.
Posted by Michael at October 20, 2004 02:12 AM
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