Surfing the Net I ran across this older post from the site Stay of Execution in which Sherry discusses some of the important reasons why we blog and Google. It had meaning to me when I read it. It states in part:
I recommend Frank Paynter's long post in which he asks 36 bloggers the question: Why blog? My favorite bit comes from Liz Ditz, who says she blogs to know what she thinks. She notes that Google is a more reliable way to search her own memory than trusting her own brain. The web, search engines, the pages of her blog are better archivists of her own thoughts and memories than she is. I think she's on to something.
As many bloggers do from time to time, I was thinking about Google because Typepad lets me see some of the Google queries that bring people to this site. It's a fascinating glimpse. Of what? Well, of a portion of the collective consciousness? When people go to Google they have a burning question, a desire to learn, a problem to solve.
Years ago at Pop!Tech John Perry Barlow said that what is cool about the internet is
that we stop being bees and begin to see ourselves as a hive, with a collective intelligence much greater than any of us buzzers have. Is Google the honeycomb?
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