Aggregarious

I like playing with words … obviously 😉

Some of you know that over the last year-plus I’ve actually met quite a few of the bloggers whom I read, or have developed some sort of friendship / rlationship with via comments and exchanges of opinion and information.

Much has been made – pro and con – of all the chattering that goes on in the blogosphere, and predictably established forms of transmitting information have looked askance at this new form of interactive communication. But advances in the capabilities keep happening … a couple of years ago it was RSS and Atom feeds, foloowed by various forms of aggregation capability. All of this helps us to create, and follow, emergent meaning (if I remember correctly, Doc Searls called it the scaffolding of knowledge, and thence meaning).

During these past couple of years, it has also dawned on many people that in an interconnected and interlinked world, some form of carnal representation and exchange (no, not THAT!) will also be necessary to make interacting in this interconnected world more meaningful, more purposeful, and perhaps more useful, in the sense of actionable exchange.

The people I read and interact with in the blogosphere are typically people I respect and admire, and from whom I can learn a lot. I’ve decided, some time ago, to become aggregarious, reaching out in my own way to make more real the richness I get, personally, from the magic in the people I have met in the blogosphere.