Joho the Blog
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January 11, 2005
SplitCoastStampers is a site for people who create art using rubber stamps. The site's nicely done, with a blog, and a gallery to share ideas. You can upload or download free cards, create your own album, share tips and techniques ("Faux Leather with Masking Tape"), and "Send cards to soldiers in Iraq through Splitcoast's very own Stamp Your Heart Out campaign." In a sign that this is a true community, members turn to one another for off-topic advice: Tips for flying with toddlers, support for Floridian members hit by the hurricanes, a discussion of why our kids their parents are uncool. Sorry, but I think this site, and a million others like it, are very cool. Posted
by D. Weinberger at January 11, 2005 01:56 PM
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Why would you be sorry?:
"A blog is in part a response to the unavoidable loneliness of being doomed to being a unique individual – how you can have friends and family and still have lots things to talk about and not have anybody to talk about them with. (This is a big part of the Internet’s appeal in general – the little, fragile tendrils of our quirky interests reaching out and finding one another when we thought we were the only person in the universe who cared about, say, hand-bent archery bows. Only connect; Bullseye!)" (http://www.cadence90.com/wp/index.php?p=3468).
This *is* one of the great things about the internet in general and the blogosphere in particular. Everybody is down on "teenage girl" blogs, but in a sense, "big blogs about little things" are countercultural in that they say, Yes, Rubber Stamps are Important Enough To Have Their Very Own Blog, So There!
Jim Moore had a great comment on blogs giving easy daily access to moments of courage to more people, because when you push "Publish," you're saying, I think this, I think this is worth talking about. So there!
Posted by: Lisa Williams | January 11, 2005 03:35 PM