the MIT weblog survey
how much of your life is affected by blogging? i know it has taken a big slice of my life the last year and now i’m part of the MIT survey which hopes to explain how blogging affects the way we communicate with each other.
i wonder if such surveys will ever find out the depth of relationships we build in the blogosphere, and, how we strengthen relationships we’ve made “off-line” through blogging. going through the survey questions, i noticed that most of the people i know, i still know personally, in the flesh. although i’ve made friends through blogging, the deeper relationships are still with those i’ve seen in the flesh, and/or have had private conversations and email exchanges off-camera (off-blog?). which is not to say that blogging has not enriched my social life. i have two well-treasured friends i left in IRRI and i have to say i am growing a closer relationship with one over the other now, because of blogging. which is sad, i suppose, but just goes to show how important it is to keep in touch with friends and people who play an important part in your life. again, not to say that blogging is the only way to do that. with family, for example, i still tend to use the more traditional methods, i.e. handwritten letters and phonecalls, to get in touch. it does happen, but i feel something’s not right if i have to email hubby to tell him to pick up something from the chinese take-out for dinner on his way home. i mean, the emailing part is wrong, isn’t it? although hubby would probably argue it’s the take-out dinner part which is wrong, hehe…
well, anyway, for whatever it’s worth, if you’d like to be part of the study, click the link above!
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yes, i loved my butterfly template, too. but i feel i’ve out-grown it. the title, too, actually. i need something new, something more apt. something that describes me better. now, where’s creativity when you need it most, arrrgh!
any suggestions?
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14 Responses to “the MIT weblog survey”
July 11th, 2005 at
handwritten letters. i miss that. nothing could ever replace that, despite the convenience of emails and instant messages.
man, there must be something wrong with me and my husband. we email each other in the course of the day 5-8 times. hehe.
name? hmmm… something with scientist and being a filipina expat. and, not to forget, a mom. dami possibilities = mas mahirap! normally, you’re good at catch phrases. isip ka, Ruth! haha
July 11th, 2005 at
I thought of giving up blogging actually but there’s you,and her & them who make my stay in this part of virtual world worthy! no ek :p
July 11th, 2005 at
nothing replaces the old methodes..iba pa rin ang feeling if you receive a mail in your mailbox, but like AnP, frenchguy and I exchange emails din almost everytime sa office, esp if i dont have a car…minsan kasi we went to the office together, then he went home alone, he forgot that i had no car! i was obliged to take the bus..grrr, see, it’s important to have emails din hehe..
July 11th, 2005 at
you’re right, from bloggers to just friends, to good friends…i’m thankful to the blogging world for being able to meet some and get to know them better.
speaking of communication, i so agree with that! and name? hmmnn…ano prize? hehe
July 11th, 2005 at
AnP: hm, napaisip tuloy ako. i guess the diff is, we’re technobobits, hehe, so medyo weird if we converse via email, hehe… anak ng pating, ako rin pinag-isip mo ng name, haha!
Che: once a blogger, always a blogger!
Analyse: i’m always excited opening mailboxes, kaso pag puro bills, ngyaah!
Justice: prize? er… iisipan din kita ng bagong title, hehe…
July 12th, 2005 at
ay syempre am answering that survey
and syempre wala akong suggestions…but if you change templates na, am sure i’d be inggit
July 12th, 2005 at
Simon and I email each other a lot during the day — mostly sweet nothings! haha yes, we still do that even after knowing each other for 6 years and married for 4 years of that 6!
catch phrase for you? bumblebee? haha joke! di na butterfly!
July 12th, 2005 at
we prefer celphones over email, mas mabilis kasi eh, pwera na lang nung nasa Iraq siya na email lang ang aming lifeline. I do love getting “real” mail, parang mas pinaghirapan, although ako eh tamad na rin magsulat, parang mas type ko na ang “pumindot” he he he
New name? Naku, kapag sa akin nanggaling ang idea eh tiyak na puro kabulastugan hehehehe.
July 12th, 2005 at
I miss writing with hands too… i think it goes with having a good penmanship
? I would anP has a good one kasi namiss rin niya 
NEW NAME: BARURUTH …LOL!!! hanep kasi tumira ng interview and writing style.
July 12th, 2005 at
i mean: I would assume anp has a good penmanship..juss ko… sobrang ka busy, na mimisss out ang ibang wordss
July 13th, 2005 at
some suggestions for blog names: (walang tatawa ha?!)
reflections under the microscope
finetuning the eyepiece
under the eyepiece
anu ba ‘yan, nag tunog mikrobyo na yata!! ha ha ha!!
ah ewan. di ko ma-express, basta something like that.
July 13th, 2005 at
‘Eye Write’ –> i think malaki scope
sawa na sa butterfly? ala eh, si charlie kaya naman , ayaw mo?
Yo! neybor..have a good summer!
July 13th, 2005 at
na inspire ako sa suggestions ni Glo. eto sa akin…
“Ang mga mikrobyo sa buhay ni Ruth” bwahaha j/k
July 14th, 2005 at
meron na din ako
1) mic-RUTH-biology
2) RUTHflections
bwehehe