Category Archives: Daily Drama

This is the time of year when the weather seems to dampen our enthusiasm. This morning started with many hours of fog punctuated by a fine drizzle of rain. The temperature is in the low fifties and the weather shows … Continue reading →

Last weekend, we revisited Floyd, Virginia. We had been given a gift of lodging at the Eagles Wings Estate, so we decided to make a weekend of it and connect back up with Fred First and his wife Ann. Fred writes Fragments From Floyd and is getting wider recognition from his performances on NPR and local venues.

Floyd is an out-of-the-way town, at the crossroads of routes 8 and 221 in southwest Virginia, but it has become a home to all sorts of musical events. This group, Sheryl Warner and the Southside Homewreckers, was performing at Oddfellas Cantina. Their music was surprisingly good, as was the food at Oddfellas. We were treated to a powerful blues performance by a gifted singer with flawless support on harmonica and guitar.  I was so taken by their performance that I bought their CD.

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Blogging is merely the result of new technology being applied to the age-old problem of people wanting their ideas to be heard. Although blogging is growing by leaps and bounds, I do not think it has reached more than a small fraction of its full applicability at this point in time.

Blogging is the subject of innumerable news articles and is the bane of many a careless mainstream journalist, but it is not out of the early adopter phase yet. Bloggers are visionaries for the most part, although members of the early majority (pragmatists) are testing the waters to see if blogging might help their careers or their businesses.

While many people are busily examining blogging from the corporate management viewpoint, (e.g. will blogging sell more of my products?) my interest as a blogger is currently focused on the speed at which blogging will become a remunerative profession.

This illustration from a review of Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm summarizes the typical phases in the adoption of a new technology. I maintain that we are still in the chasm between early adopters and the early majority.

I think we bloggers can benefit by revisiting Geoffrey Moore’s book and looking at various aspects of blogging vs the Technology Adoption Life Cycle. The chasm model provides a rational structure for predicting the future course of blogging and bloggers.

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I have been watching our local wildlife for some time and I’ve observed some behavior that may have some applicability to life in general, possibly to work situations as well.

My first conclusion is that it’s easy to get along with those who don’t threaten our place in the food chain. It’s more difficult when others threaten to dimish our food supply, or steal our place in the limelight.

My second conclusion is that animals want the attention of other animals, just as people strive to get attention from other people.

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