Comments on: If you didn’t blog it, it didn’t happen.

By: icon pack

icon pack — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:52:16 +0000

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By: Mathieu Plourde

Mathieu Plourde — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:51:35 +0000

Twitter, and social media in general, is transient. It’s an almost real-time conversation that quickly fades away, pushed downstream by the flow of the new hot stuff and shiny things.

Blogging sets a milestone, it connects the transient to something that needs to be remembered. Basically, one feeds into the other, in a virtuous circle. But sometimes, we get in a frenzy over the here and now, and we forget to set our milestones. That’s a constant struggle I have, for sure.

By: Malyn Mawby (@malynmawby)

Malyn Mawby (@malynmawby) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 06:59:11 +0000

This has reminded me of one of my favourite posts Reader, you are important to me.

It’s great that I read this after reading your paper on auto-biography (perfect timing/sequence, imho). We are all gypsies, one way or another. I think I am, metaphorically and I can say the same for many people whether or not they choose to admit it. But, as mentioned in the said post, our act of connecting – whatever the medium, digital or analogue – makes us part of each other’s stories.

I certainly hope you keep writing.

By: onepercentyellow

onepercentyellow — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:31:15 +0000

I’ve also been thinking about these shifting centers – places we care deeply about and spend inordinate amounts of time in and then one day, *poof* we realize that we haven’t been back in months. I suppose it’s like that in the analogue world as well. Perhaps the Beetles had it all along…

“There are places I remember all my life, though some have changed…”

By: onepercentyellow

onepercentyellow — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:28:55 +0000

I hadn’t really thought of it in quite those terms, but I think you’re entirely right. The reflection time really gives you the moment to consider what has gone on and to properly square it away. There are a few things I’d like to catch up on in here in order to fully absorb the learning that happened. Now I can see how that is important from a retention standpoint.

By: Alec Couros (@courosa)

Alec Couros (@courosa) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 23:36:11 +0000

I’ve been thinking about this a lot as I’ve done so much in the Twitter space and so much less on my (space) over the past few years. I feel that a part of my identity is missing, and I know I need to reclaim my identity in the spaces that I own. This is definitely going to be something important for me to write and think about over the term of my sabbatical.

By: Marilyn Schwab

Marilyn Schwab — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:02:00 +0000

Well said!

By: Mathieu Plourde

Mathieu Plourde — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:45:47 +0000

This is so true. Reflecting on what you learn is an essential part of the experience, and capturing those reflections in any medium is critical. It just so happens that we have this thing called the internet that allows us to share these reflections across distance and time.

It’s as if for any given moment you do something, you need to set aside as much time afterward to encode it, for yourself first, and for an audience. Great post.