Comments on: Blogging, possibly joining Brazen Careerist http://www.rebeccacottrell.co.uk/blog/2008/05/24/blogging-possibly-joining-brazen-careerist/ Design, Culture, Technology Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:09:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Rebecca Cottrell http://www.rebeccacottrell.co.uk/blog/2008/05/24/blogging-possibly-joining-brazen-careerist/#comment-623 Rebecca Cottrell Tue, 27 May 2008 10:51:30 +0000 http://www.rebeccacottrell.co.uk/blog/?p=100#comment-623 Hi Penelope, Thanks for your thoughts! A blog is great for organizing ideas that are important to you, you're right. I've found my blog is great for pushing me to think my ideas through more clearly. Writing forces me to do this -- a blog, in a way, is a personal collection of essays, depending on what you use it for. But even if blogs weren't around, I know I'd be writing down my ideas in a private journal. So context is really key: the benefit of blogging is community. I learn a lot from reading other people's blogs. Rebecca Hi Penelope,

Thanks for your thoughts!

A blog is great for organizing ideas that are important to you, you’re right. I’ve found my blog is great for pushing me to think my ideas through more clearly. Writing forces me to do this — a blog, in a way, is a personal collection of essays, depending on what you use it for.

But even if blogs weren’t around, I know I’d be writing down my ideas in a private journal. So context is really key: the benefit of blogging is community. I learn a lot from reading other people’s blogs.

Rebecca

]]> By: Penelope Trunk http://www.rebeccacottrell.co.uk/blog/2008/05/24/blogging-possibly-joining-brazen-careerist/#comment-616 Penelope Trunk Sun, 25 May 2008 16:18:34 +0000 http://www.rebeccacottrell.co.uk/blog/?p=100#comment-616 Hi, Rebecca. When you think about if you want to to be known for your blog, you could think about it another way: Do you want to be known for your ideas? A blog is really just an organized way to think about a topic that is important to us. And I think there are really very few things better to be known for than our contribution to a community of people thinking about what matters to us. I love blogging because it makes me be a little more disciplined in my thinking than I would be if I were doing it all by myself. I also like blogging because I can tell what is important to me at any given time in my life by the sub-topics my brain keeps running back to. I love blogging so much as a tool for self-discovery in the context of community. I feel lucky to live at a time when I have this tool to help me figure out my career and my life. Penelope Hi, Rebecca. When you think about if you want to to be known for your blog, you could think about it another way: Do you want to be known for your ideas? A blog is really just an organized way to think about a topic that is important to us. And I think there are really very few things better to be known for than our contribution to a community of people thinking about what matters to us.

I love blogging because it makes me be a little more disciplined in my thinking than I would be if I were doing it all by myself. I also like blogging because I can tell what is important to me at any given time in my life by the sub-topics my brain keeps running back to.

I love blogging so much as a tool for self-discovery in the context of community. I feel lucky to live at a time when I have this tool to help me figure out my career and my life.

Penelope

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