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Its only dawned on me that it’s just over a week until the Blog Awards. 8 days, 20 hours, 6 minutes and 43 seconds to be precise (I like timeanddate.com), yet I still have not booked somewhere to stay. The reason I had put it off so much is that I was trying to get someone to go with me for this weekend of would-be adventures in Dublin’s Fair City. Unfortunately no one I know cares enough about blogs and Ireland so I may be going on my own…
I have been trying recently to get a good friend blogging, though it isn’t going too well. The internet just isn’t something he does. It was hard enough to get him to use it in the first place, though it wasn’t even me who managed to do that - it was the necessity to check mail for important Camp America updates, keeping in touch with friends and communicating with the girlfriend who resides 3624 miles away. It is a tool for the occasional myspacing and emailing. I sometimes feel like it isn’t worth it, that it will never work out; he will never love the internet as I do. Maybe he will and maybe he won’t… but I find it so hard to give up trying.
I have recently tried to encourage the idea of blogging (now with his very own wordpress blog), still a very foreign idea. There’s a small flame of interest there somewhere, but just not enough time is spent online to bother with such things. I guess it just isn’t for everyone.
I knew he wouldn’t have much reason to want to join me to the Blog Awards. After much persuasion he decided he would, but money was always an issue - with traveling (see Camp America and girlfriend 3624 miles away) always at the forefront of his mind. It has been on and off for the last couple of weeks, always saying more time was needed, but there was no more time; beds are limited. A final decision had to be made. As suspected, that decision is no.
I still do not fully know why I blog, or why my blog would encourage anyone else to do such I thing. I enjoy reading blogs, as overwhelming as it can get at times, having an agenda of your own can be much more difficult, as I am finding out.
So, dear readers, I ask you this, have you been successful in converting any non-internet users to the wonderful ways of the global datasphere?
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Managed to convince both my brother
http://goodonpaper.org/dailyvoiceand my girlfriend
http://goodonpaper.org/shinka:)
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