I'm a late bloomer to this thing called blogging.
I have a confession to make. I made the leap from "earth-dweller" (A term I picked up from my online friend Kevin M. Keating through one of his tweets last June.) to "cyberspace trawler" (Not sure who made that one up but I started calling myself that when I wrote myself a short profile on my tumblr and Pownce pages.) just February of this year.
Not that I was an internet-virgin before this. I did my share of Google and Yahoo and MSN. And most certainly had my fill of e-mail creating. But nothing came as close to actually venturing out beyond the confines of Multiply to "put myself on the web". Oh, wait! I'm forgetting friendster. Can I please forget friendster? (Can't bring myself to Cancel/Delete my account!)
The mere thought of being Googled made me shudder. Reading about my morning show and our station was fine but stuff about me me?!
And then Wikipedia happened. From my quiet and obscure existence, I found myself having to contribute to the website for work. Mediation was required and it was me who was tasked with doing the deed of making the request. In all honesty, I lost sleep thinking how easy it had become to Google my name and not just find me but only ONE facet of my life. A facet that is hardly wholistic and defining.
Debbie Weil came to my rescue. I read her book, The Corporate Blogging Book, and decided to define myself online through blogging.
I had two choices: let others define who I am through their own limited perception; or introduce myself and let people know more about who I am
I chose the latter and haven't turned back. From my humble Multiply beginnings, I signed up for WordPress, Blogger and Vox in the span of one week. The username I chose for all four? Mine. My thinking is that since there are ways to find one's real name and address anyway, there's no use hiding. And in my observation, it only takes one blog to find out the other links that a person cares and blogs about, so why bother trying?
I would rather people knew about me, from me. How I think; how I feel; what I'm passionate about. Or how emotionally-adjusted I am; how spiritually-inclined; how intellectually-competent (Or think I am!)
So here is where I am:
- Jaiku
- Pownce
- iLike
- Multiply
- del.icio.us
- tumblr
- friendster
- youtube
- flickr
- Spock
- VOX
- Stylehive
- Wikipedia
So far.
I've met some fascinating people along the way. Now if only I can remember all these passwords and e-mail combinations!
How about you? Why do you Web 2.0? Where else are you?
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