I suppose the amount and frequency with which one receives “blank stares” and “glazed over” looks has the effect of driving one into the embraces of online interaction, “where people understand”. It’s like an oasis sometimes. Ecunet was my first experience of that. Weblogs and the people who know me in the face-to-face world (who still write me via email since none of them blog, except for the few who have met me as a result of our being bloggers, like Kenneth of JoKer’s Blog or David weinberger and AKMA)

This causes me to wonder if I’m not becoming the kind of geek I never considered myself to be. (ie. I have to be somewhat of a geek by virtue of technical knowledge — at least more than those in circles who may identify me as such) which is, one who doesn’t relate well in person. Maybe that’s because I focus so much and so often in my work upon things that it still takes a geek to think about, at least in Church circles. Since the others who are thiking about this on a level which I can identify (and are resources for me) are all online and generally blogging, then I naturally “gravitate” toward my computer whereby I can “connect” with them.