This is the first posting on my blog.

Since this blog for me, will be a journey of discovery through the net, I openly admit that I start with quite a bit of wonder. For wonder is a quality that enables perception of things yet unseen to be seen.

Neil Armstrong said wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand

Yes, I too wish to understand. I am interested in the humanity behind the networks we build, the metaphors of substance, meaning, identity that emerge as these places that we inhabit are extended into virtual places on the internet. And I am interested in the stories that abound out there; stories of people connecting, learning, and creating in places on the net.

I call these places enabling spaces.

And these spaces are created in what is presently being called web2.

Web2 is all about creating one’s own personalised space. It’s about being online with a certain degree of charm, personality and flair. It is also about allowing for contacts to be created through mutual interests and affinities.

And it is certainly about creating success. For it’s dynamic, organismic in its development, and it’s taking us to our very own preferred future! This, through social and business networking as well as a myriad of other services available.

In the weeks to come, I hope to take a closer look at the poetics of what has become our modern discourse media. This is of course the web. Or more correctly web2.

And its poetics? Ah I’d like to find what motivates, creates meaning and gives reward.

I don’t have the answers, however you may know this already?

Let me hear what you get from the internet? What social networking or business networking sites do you use? How have they become an asset for you?

Also, where on the internet do you get your news? Do you read blogs? Do you interact with bloggers, with newsmakers?

For it is not just the appearance of networks I wish to see. It is the people their presence and spirit that is most interesting.

Let’s see where this journey will take us.

If you would like me to know about your story of how the internet has become a meaningful aspect of your life with regards to business or social networking or indeed news finding, please let me hear.

Also, if you are a power user and would like me to write about your profile, send me a line. It may be that you are an anchor blogger or someone heavily into networking, or just someone who knows all about where the net is taking us. I’d like to hear that too!

Until next week then.

Bye for now

Maria

you can contact me through this e-mail address: maria_m_odonovan@yahoo.dk