The Blog Theory

Preface

Hi folks! This piece of text was extracted from 8106.du!!, my first blog, started almost 2 years ago and replaced by this one you are reading now. Although today I do not embrace every idea contained in the text I still find it quite nice.

The main reasons I had to put 8106.du!! out were (i) I wasn't happy with it's content anymore and (ii) I really wanted to write in English to keep practicing and reach more people globally. My Peace was released about 2 months ago and, in the beginning, I also didn't know if it was going to survive. Now here it is, alive and active, and this is how I intend to keep it for a long and undetermined while!

Bloggin' is cool!

Du!!
November 4th, 2004


The Blog Theory - by Du!!@8/Jan/2003

Month and a half after 8106.du!! went on release, I think I already have something to say about what I've learned with this thing. There was born the idea of writing The Blog Theory. Till now there are basically 2 points, but I consider them quite interesting...

The first thing I noticed about blogs in general is the power a blog might provide to its owner when used with wisdom: with a blog one can say whatever, to whoever and whenever he wants! Direct and indirect approaches can be very well applied and will hit the targets right in the center based on a simple assumption called human curiosity. I am curious, so are you and, when we realize somebody we know (or even better, somebody we take an interest in) might be writing something about ourselves or something we may find interesting, we certainly won't miss it! If the guy who's datin' your ex-girl had a blog, wouldn't you read it? If that chick you have a crush on had a blog, wouldn't you read it?

Without giving concrete examples (for name-protection's sake...) I can tell you I know bloggers who use the thing very thoughtfully and, before publishing every post, calculate what each person involved is going to think about it after reading: "well, my family's gonna think this, my girl that, my ex-girl another-that..." it's simple! And what's more funny: who reads get addicted! It's drug-like, causes strong dependence! Here enters the narcissism involved: who wouldn't want to see people admiring and depending on the admiration of his life? That thing of wondering "I am the guy", this is a kinda universal desire too...

This is how this power thing goes... with each one's creativity!

Now the happy and cute part of the thing comes: the blog is you! It really is! When I visit a blog, I'm not just visiting a website, I'm visiting it's owner! If I kinda miss somebody who blogs, I can enter his blog and have an idea of how his life's going, what he has been doing... and then, if I meet him next week, it'll be as if we'd already talked on the previous one, 'cause I already know something of what's going on with him.

One more point... there's all the voyeurism involved! Like, if the blog is the person, once the thing is public and most of the times doesn't have any kind of access control, I can perfectly observe the person without being seen! This gives a feeling of control over the owner, like "every step you take, I'll be watching you", and makes everything even funnier, also because one who blogs is surely a "client" of other blogs too and one who's only a client will certainly, at least once, think about starting his own blog!

Well, I'm not unsure anymore about the reasons of this thing! Here's the response! I'm happy with this blog, it kicks ass and, whenever possible, I'll keep writing! Whoever wants to read it will always be welcome!

Blog, dude!!

See ya,
Du!! (Why not?! http://blog.du.eti.br)