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Blogtrack Treasure Hunting. Be the First on Your Block!

Blogtrack Treasure Hunting.  Be the First on Your Block!

[I'm sorry, but I am reposting this entry.  I messed up the time-stamp and it is making me crazy that it is recorded in the archive and the current page as 12 hours later than when I actually posted it.  This will have it show up in the feed again.  It is a situation that bears on the difference between entry Atom IDs and Permalinks, though.]

Full Circle Associates Online Interaction & Community Blog: Feed Bleeps and Blops.  Nancy and I have been commenting on each other's blog as a way to have a side conversation because we don't know each other and have no other reliable means of contact.  (Here's an opportunity to look into presence support appropriate for blogging.)  The conversation, tucked into comments on the others blog, is very incoherent from the perspective of a lurker who sees only one side of it.

I am thinking that intentional (or coincidental) connected blog droppings would make for an interesting game and treasure hunt. Find the points of connection and string a conversation back together!  Amaze your friends!! Win great prizes??

I suppose there are tools for this, and then it might not be so interesting.  Or would it?

In the situation that provoked this thought, I did do the detective work to figure out an e-mail address and introduced myself on noticing her arrival in MSN Messenger. We are now more acquainted than at the beginning of this dance.  It was an ad hoc Friend-of-a-Friend experience: We were both comfortable having more conversation out of our respect for a mutual acquaintance, anderbill.  That strikes me as social networking at its best.

listening to:

Fleetwood Mac "Tusk" with the USC Trojan Marching Band, on The Dance live-performance DVD, Warner Reprise (1999)

Fleetwood Mac "Songbird" Christine McVie solo, on The Dance live-performance DVD, Warner Reprise (1999)

Billy Joel Greatest Hits Volume III - The Video DVD, Sony (1997)

"and the songbirds are singing like they know the score ..."

posted by orcmid at 6/01/2004 10:50:37 PM