I made up a blogging business card some weeks ago because I got tired of writing my weblog URL on the back of my other business cards. This card has my name and the tagline Online Essays<\/i> along with this URL and email address of choice.<\/p>\n
In spite of the fact that I am “retired” and live way out in the countryside of south central Virginia, I talk to more people daily than I did while a senior program manager at Sun. As a secondary result of starting two businesses and a weblog, I have also become an inveterate networker. \n<\/p>\n
I am no longer surprised how often weblogs come up or can be brought up in response to comments about life in general. The best lead-ins, of course, are discussions about media bias or lack of real information from the press. <\/p>\n
I generally suggest that they should start looking at weblogs for real information on important issues. If the person has strong opinions about some subject, I tell them, “You ought to have a weblog!”<\/p>\n
“What’s that?”<\/p>\n
“Well, it a forum that you control entirely and you can solicit comments or not. For an example of this, go visit the website on this card.”<\/p>\n
Net result, one more card passed out to a possible future blogger.<\/p>\n
Thanks to Jeff Jarvis of Buzzmachine<\/a>, for the idea for this post. Jeff is also the person responsible for sending Zeyad<\/a> the digital camera which was used to produce the photos appearing in my earlier post on December 11<\/a>.<\/p>\n