I am a dorky Christian, husband to my beautiful wife & best friend and father of three amazing children. In my spare time, I like to play guitar and coach little kids' baseball.
I use this website to log my random thoughts (which doesn't seem to be that frequent).
I am a designer, developer and web analyst for my company, Visual Notion.
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When furthering convergence of real life with online data something has to give. People will cut back on something. Commenting, for one, has become too noisy on blogs, in my opinion. People will trim the fat and time involved in managing comments which typically are negative or distract entirely from the information presented.
I don't believe that ALL commenting is bad. I just see that more people are seeing how time-consuming it is to manage and need to cut back on offering that as a communication method on their website.
Openness seems to be a popular topic or something I'm more in tune with lately.
Michael Wilson, CEO of Small World Labs has a post about his personal life that made me think about how we approach offline and online relationships.
I first saw mention of his post on Twitter and after reading his article, another poster on Twitter was asking for prayer for her 4-day old niece who was having tests run on her heart. I recognized that this brought her online, Twitter relationship to a different level with most people as she just shared something personal like MIchael did. I was more than happy to pray for her niece and told her so. Now she has a stronger bond with some people in the Twitter-verse.