March 17, 2007

love and goodwill

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Thanks to Alex de Carvalho and all the Miami bloggers for the great geek dinner we had on Thursday night. I was touched to be so well looked after by so many smart, friendly people.

One thing that has been occurring to me over this entire US trip: To an outside observer, especially to a cynical outside observer, the whole Web 2.0/blogging thing may look a bit strange: a lot of pyjama-clad weirdos obsessing into the wee hours about A-Lister backscratching and Technorati rankings.

But on the front lines, it seems to me there's something far more interesting going on. The vast, vast, vast majority of good bloggers I know are not doing it for links and cash, but for simple more primal reasons: the need to connect. The need to love.

Love and goodwill are driving this revolution. The selfish will be left behind.

Posted by hugh macleod at March 17, 2007 4:33 PM | TrackBack
Comments

"I'm sure you're right," sounds like mere polite agreement, but in this case is a simple statement of fact.

Posted by: GailB at March 17, 2007 5:06 PM

Hugh, I couldn't have said it better myself! I guess like mighty minds agree. Can I have your penis? Just kidding ... :-)

It was great to meet you. I'm working on an article about the get together as we speak and I will definitely quote from this post.

Thank you for my cartoon!

Posted by: Manola Blablablanik at March 17, 2007 6:37 PM

I hope you have a fabulous St. Patrick’s Day!

Posted by: Marti at March 17, 2007 6:44 PM

you make me laugh my friend xxxx

Posted by: cat at March 17, 2007 8:35 PM

Yay! Thanks for the mention Hugh, you rock. It was great seeing you at SXSW and in Miami and hope to see you more often.

Reboot9, maybe? ...

Posted by: Alex at March 17, 2007 8:38 PM

Amen to that.

Posted by: Kath at March 17, 2007 9:17 PM

We see how close people may be in spite of the physical distance: that's my opinion about blogging and I'm so far away from you in distance.
I have to quote you.
Bye :)

Posted by: vague at March 17, 2007 10:42 PM

if there's anything we've learned from jr. high, it's that people who need other people are creepy and they deserve to eat lunch by themselves. the most they can hope for is to establish a 'lone outcast' status and maybe that'll ensure them a semi-attractive date for the prom... way, way off in the distant highschool future...

no one wants a person who needs them. pff.

Posted by: kaylen at March 17, 2007 10:55 PM

People who need people are the luckiest people in the world.

Too bad, kaylen. I wanted to share my french fries and milkshake. Hmpf!

Posted by: Barbara Streisand at March 18, 2007 12:56 AM

Re: Comic

Heh, but is it mightier than the sword?

Posted by: Nick at March 18, 2007 2:50 AM

... french fries and milkshakes. is that even kosher? either way, "barbara", i don't think you know how much you don't want to share food with me. especially straw-dependent food. i am the bearer of pestilence. gross, head-cold pestilence. nobody wants a piece o' this business.

ps- that comic rocks my world.

Posted by: kaylen at March 19, 2007 7:38 AM

Eventually anyone who's working for Wall st will be dead meat.

Patience is Marketing's new virtue

Posted by: Ben Rowe at March 22, 2007 6:23 AM