Social media give me chills of concern regarding privacy, even though I have a most vanilla life. I was hoping that this blog would provide a less intrusive (read: less money grubbing, less advertising) venue for communication. Yet, it is not generating the flow of interaction that I expected, so Chris is thinking of just posting his own thoughts on Zuckerberg's thing. For those of you who are already on Facebook, look him up there.
Perhaps, this blog will be my way of keeping bloggy-type folks informed, especially those not into The Facebook. So be it. An experiment, anyway.
Today showed me the might of smart, middle-aged people who have worked their jobs for years and amassed mountains of wisdom, knowledge, and connections. My friends wrought the change in communication needed to get our insurance to talk to the UPenn program (I think. Tomorrow will reveal if this is so). There seems to have finally been forward movement in getting Chris to Philly to see if he can be in the CART study, and the forward progress was due only to them. I thank my lucky stars for these people. Where I was casting about for the location of the problem or what I might have not understood correctly, they seized opportunities and leveraged information to made it happen. Because they could and because they cared. (There will be an abundance of dark chocolates in their offices soon).
Sometimes I envy The Youth. But not so much today.
The many seeds of friendship you have planted over the years are yielding good crops when you need them most! Glad you have friends that can pry the doors off of beauracracy!
ReplyDeleteSo this can be your place to write, and Chris can use the fb. You can post other stuff like how the rabbit ate the cabbage, and your pickle recipes. I wonder if this blog will "generate the flow of interaction" that you were looking for only after you've posted for a while. That's how normal blogs go, I'm thinking. The caringbridge one generated a lot of interest because 1) I think it's often used for imminently dire situations that shoot severe dread into people, and 2) it sends out an email for every update. But if you post interesting stuff, people's eyeballs will seek it out, right? And not need the email for motivation. I wonder how configurable these blogger blogs are. I guess i'd need to fire one up to find out. The columns seem so narrow. Also, that robots filter captcha thing would be nice to turn off. Also, I would like to be able to edit my entries. The fb lets you do that... can you turn that on?
ReplyDeleteI wonder if WordPress would work mo'-bedda?
ReplyDeleteI remembered I had a wordpress account already, but not a blog. But just curious, I logged in and clicked create a blog and they make nice looking blogs! I think the email/notification settings can be configured to do a lot of things. And no robot checker captcha tool!! Check this out: http://marblenerd.wordpress.com/
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