Online in the real world June 4, 2007
Posted by CamdenKiwi in : Blogging , trackbackI am walking through Leadenhall Market at lunchtime today, when a tall bloke in a suit with bright green sunglasses comes up to me. ‘Cathryn’ he says. ‘Hello’, says I, madly trying to work out where I know him from. ‘Camden Kiwi’ he says. I think about backing away slowly.
He explains that he works for my current client, and shows me his pass, so he’s kosher. He found my blog through a technorati dearch he has on the client’s website, which I must have mentioned here and has since subscribed to this blog, my work site and my del.icio.us feed. Having seen me around, he’d been meaning to introduce himself. He knows my online persona quite well.
We chat for a while about online social networking and how rss feeds haven’t caught on as well as they should have. I’ve deliberately made my online presence fairly easy to find, partly because the work side of it is a marketing tool, but somehow, this feels a little wierd. A permeable membrane, rather than a brick wall, lies between offline and online worlds, but normally I point offline friends to the online world, rather than the online world suddenly appearing on a city street.
So John, if you’re reading this, it was lovely to meet you. Sorry if I seemed taken aback, it was just a little odd.
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Yeah, but was he good looking?
oh dear that must have come as a shock to you. Blog anonymity reduced to a fearful “Hello”? Well I am glad he was kosher, but did you check if he was halal? Only joking! Best D
Some non-techies like me kept away from RSS feeds, because you had to download software, and it was all a bit complicated. Now that I’ve updated to IE7, RSS feeds are only a click away, and I’ve learned to love them.
No I’m definitely not good looking
, Somewhere on the web I read a paraphrasing of Warhol saying that we would be “famous to 15 people” I think you were experiencing a little bit of stardom! It is odd but may become less so. The web reduces the distance between people, we may all become each others fans!