I like connecting for trying to make coordinated action happen. There’s much power and potential there.

In any case, here we are: a couple of guys still driven to write, regardless of how much we read others.

In the old days, that was just called “being a writer.” I prefer that definition. “New writing”?

I don’t have to read everybody – don’t want to, either, as the ranks mushroom – to want to write. Nobody else has to read me. In this sense, blogging is not revolutionary. Supply and demand still rule the economics of writing and reading.

I do appreciate your comments when you visit, though. Always eloquent, clear, challenging – that is revolutionary.

It seemed like there was an ‘edublogging elite’ when I entered this world 16 months ago. I’m not sure I think so any more. I rarely read any of the elite – Richardson and Fryer and McLeod are exceptions, and Stager (but even them I read irregularly). And I discover new people all the time through Twitter follows and such.

Then there’s guest-blogging, the (flawed but useful) Edublog Awards to recognize new voices each year, there are Nings and again, Twitter – all of these seem ways to stir the pot.

Ah, John, it’s so different trying to write and leave comments as a husband instead of a bachelor. My apologies for the fragmentation – I feel a bit pressured to finish!