So... there are people that write a blog and there are bloggers. Bloggers don't write "content". I mean, we do. Posts are technically content but bloggers do not fill a slot. To a blogger, a blog is... a role; an identity. A person with a blog owns a tool, the way someone owns a guitar. A blogger is a musician; the blog is their instrument.

But a better analogy, one for my fellow bloggers: Blogging is like ham radio.

Hams and bloggers share a technical intimacy. One won't shut up about their antenna setup; the other has opinions about RSS. There’s a quiet pride in knowing how the signal gets from your voice, your words, to a stranger. More interestingly, we also share a loneliness. Not the sad kind. The necessary kind. The kind that comes from choosing a decentralized, unamplified frequency in a world optimized for noise. We transmit into the ether. It's not about reach, it's about resonance; ripples. You throw a stone into the pond waiting for a response that may never come. But the excitement when it does... is wondrous.

A trackback. A mention. A signal report: 59, QTH confirmed. Contact.

Alex, David, Hamish, Sebastian, copy.