Marital Talk

Stolen directly from Mother Goose Mouse is the following paragraph…

"I know that yesterday I was supposed to be all introspective, being the last day of the old year, and today I’m supposed to be looking forward to the new year ahead - setting goals and making resolutions - but honestly, I’m just glad for the status quo.  If, at the end of 2009, I’m still in the same place I was at the end of 2008, I’ll count myself lucky."

And, so, I spent the majority of the day trying to figure out exactly how to put into words what my brain is churning around, fermenting, maturing, and finally distinctively juggling around in honesty.

So, I figured, the best place to start was with some quotes.  I’ve been compiling them on and off all day..they are in this post but not necessarily in any order. 

What I want to talk about is blogging.  Yes, blogging.  What is blogging?  What does it mean to say, "I’m a blogger" or "She/He is a blogger?"  Is that a negative set of phrases?  To me it isn’t.  Well, wait, to me it hasn’t been in the past.  But, I have a few thoughts on what it means to be a blogger and some quotes to go with it.  I saved this post for January 2nd because I didn’t want it to muddy up my page for New Year’s Day.

“I believe the term “blog” means more than an online journal. I believe a blog is a conversation. People go to blogs to read AND write, not just consume.” (Michael Arrington)

This next quote probably sums up each and everything I want to say, but you know me,  have to add my 2 cents in with it.  The quote goes like this:

“Breathe. Know that the Internet has no eraser.” (Liz Strauss)

So, what exactly does that mean.  I’ll tell you what it means, it means, that once the words are put out there, you can never take them back.  You can never right a wrong and you can never deny your authorship.  So, naturally, common sense has to be employed lest bloggy-drama exist and persist and no one is happy. 

Where am I going with this, well, a couple of places.  One is to say, I’ve been guilty of expecting the eraser to work on the Internet.  And I found out the hard way that it doesn’t.  I’ll leave that as it is. 

The second part is this, just because it is my blog, does that give me the right to write whatever I want and then say, "well if you don’t want to read it, don’t come to this URL"?  I mean, is it ok for me to tell you that the sky is purple and the grass is orange, knowing full well that this is not true.  But, if you call me on it, do I have the right to be pissed because…you didn’t have to read it if you didn’t want to or do should it be the other way around, the person doing the misrepresentation is the one who should be angry?

That’s correct, I didn’t have to read it if I didn’t want to.  But, what if I happen to be the Sun or the Grass and a blogger has just posted this false information about me.  Do my rights then start to have meaning?

I’ve always lived by the thoughts that "your rights end where mine begin".  And, your right to blog about the sky being purple when I am the sky and I am clearly not purple really leads me back to that.  Your right to write that statement ends where my right to correct the information begins.

Is anyone still reading this?

To be continued….part two coming up soon…