Scott Loftesness was the first to reflect my thoughts on the reflective nature of blogging.  Thanks Scott.  I really enjoy talking with people like Scott and Dave [Winer] because there is a startling lack of 'intellectual resistence' or struggle to explain.  With just a few words and a bit of clarification to sort out alternate interpretations is all one needs.

Blogspace reminds me of the mirror room scene in Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon.  While there are different types of blogging ranging from diary to router styles, one attribute shared by majority of blogs is: reflective.  In other words, blogs reflect thoughts similar to the way mirrors reflect images.  If a blog is a mirror, a world of blog is a world of mirrors, a strange and disorienting world of reflections.

Within minutes of my first blog post, Dave Winer commented on my blog (thanks Dave;) in his blog which serves similar role as Netscape Navigator's default home page: Blogspace Home.  In terms of my mirror world metaphor, Dave's Scripting.com is like the huge mirror on the ceiling.

Lets see which mirror reflects this reflection of my thoughts…

For many years, I have watched the Blog phenomenon unfold with Dave Winer, a friend I have known since his Living Video Text days, in the middle of it.  I have avoided blogging mainly because I instinctively felt that blogging is not only as addictive as smoking, but also changes how one thinks and behaves day by day.  Whether the effects of bloggin is good or not, I cannot stay away any longer.  So off I go into Blogspace.