Your personal contact information is safe from my eyes, as I can only see aggregate data: ingress and egress pages, geography, browsers used, keywords searched, and more.
While I don't know who visits the site, I do know who leaves comments, for that is public information on every blog post. Comments are part of the social fabric that keep the web alive.
If someone posts a link back to their blog, I always visit and if inspired, I post a comment, too. More often than not, I subscribe to their blog and check it frequently for new content.
Over time, as many people reading this can attest, we form a bond due to common interests, and interact on each other's online journals. In many cases, we continue the conversation offline, over e-mails and on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
I'd like to thank the following people who left me noteworthy comments in August:
Billy Akerman, Robin Birch, Will Boncher, David Bradley, Jo Brodie, Luc Debaisieux, Tim Jahn, Franke James, Richard Jennings, Ed Kohler, Cath Lawson, Jon Lebkowsky, Vince Leibowitz, Valeria Maltoni, Vanessa Mason, Marc Meyer, Dick Monahan, Laura Nathan, Diana Norris, Francois Rocaboy, Tom Salemi, Meg Stivison, Lance Strate, Gillian Swart, Joseph Thornley, Jill Warner, Kim Woodbridge, Joanna Young, Andy, Deb, Eric, Kikolani, Mary, and all of the anonymous people.
Is blogging a dying breed? I don't think so. I hope not.
Blogging, like all things on the web, is a social phenomenon - as I write less about esoteric topics and more focused posts on social media and technology policy, I turn to you, dear reader, to guide me in what you'd like to read.
If I write something that inspires you, let me know. If I bore you, let me know, too. You can respond with a statement or a question, whichever strikes your fancy. I don't mind if you write anonymously, though it's hard for me to socialize with someone who writes behind a mask.
And if you don't have a blog to link your name, how about your Facebook profile or LinkedIn profile or some other social network profile so I (and others) can click it and learn more about you?
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