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Apr. 20th, 2010 02:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cblj_backupVery few events in life can't be put in perspective by a peanut butter sandwich.
Including the fact that either LJ has crashed or our work server suddenly doesn't like it, because I can't respond to comments or get my journal to load. Livejournal's timing has always sucked, but this feels like some kind of vendetta.
Just for documentation's sake, the official Author Blog Awards announcement not-on-twitter is here. Fun new blogs to read!
I've been pondering and I think it is apt that these awards reward the voters with prizes, rather than the bloggers -- the spirit of digital media, and social networking to support print media, is very much driven by a desire to connect to readers. Reader participation is vital to the whole process. It certainly is for me. And that is, if not the point, at least a happy side effect of widely-available, instantaneous mass communication -- forging a stronger bond with the people you tell your stories to, so that you can learn how to tell them better, and what kind to tell.
To be honest, I dashed off the last post and ran off to lunch expecting to have a lot more to say, but that pretty much covers my bases.
Meanwhile, the security audit at work goes on. Happily, one of our staff had flowers sent to her today and she's not in, so she told me to put them in water and I could keep them on my desk. Roses and crocuses do brighten the spreadsheet mire I'm slogging through.
Including the fact that either LJ has crashed or our work server suddenly doesn't like it, because I can't respond to comments or get my journal to load. Livejournal's timing has always sucked, but this feels like some kind of vendetta.
Just for documentation's sake, the official Author Blog Awards announcement not-on-twitter is here. Fun new blogs to read!
I've been pondering and I think it is apt that these awards reward the voters with prizes, rather than the bloggers -- the spirit of digital media, and social networking to support print media, is very much driven by a desire to connect to readers. Reader participation is vital to the whole process. It certainly is for me. And that is, if not the point, at least a happy side effect of widely-available, instantaneous mass communication -- forging a stronger bond with the people you tell your stories to, so that you can learn how to tell them better, and what kind to tell.
To be honest, I dashed off the last post and ran off to lunch expecting to have a lot more to say, but that pretty much covers my bases.
Meanwhile, the security audit at work goes on. Happily, one of our staff had flowers sent to her today and she's not in, so she told me to put them in water and I could keep them on my desk. Roses and crocuses do brighten the spreadsheet mire I'm slogging through.
