A (not quite triumphant) Return

Tonight I was inspired. After several great conversations with very smart people, I decided to return to the blogosphere once more. The Institute for New Media Studies at the University of Minnesota, where I serve as a research assistant, hosted a screening of Chuck Olsen's Blogumentary documentary. A discussion followed, featuring panelists Olsen, Dan Gillmor, easily considered the one true ally the blogosphere has in the "real media" sector, Rex Sorgatz, who runs Fimocolous, Krista Kennedy, a Ph D student in the University of Minnesota's Rhetoric department and Shane Nackerud, Webmaster for the U-MN's libraries and the coordinator of the UThink blog service.

After being reminded of what a blog is supposed to do, that is, provide a place for people to come together to discuss issuses and ideas and engage each other in a useful discursive fashion, I decided to make a point to blog at least once a week.

I made largely this same comment on Chuck's blog. Hopefully some of his traffic will wander over here and perhaps some of them might come back for a second shot. One can only hope. Though, a lack of audience certainly never stopped me, or any other blogger, before.