25 April 2012

And the WWW connects us exponentially!

No way, you peeps are actually viewing my blog!

I felt like I was throwing a multi-colored grain of sand in the ocean of the internet and saying "fetch"!  I was happy to see the steady but small viewing when I initially checked my stats, and then I realised that each time I viewed my own blog it logged me!  Well I guess I've always been my own biggest fan, and this is no exception.

Now I see that I've had views from Russia, Asia and North America, and that makes this white African one happy camper.  Not for the boost of my ego (cos I'm slave laboring to attain the cardinal virtue of humility at the moment), but because it shows the potential of the information revolution to connect people who would never have traversed even 2 of their 6 degrees of separation.

Last night I was watching a documentary about the dark ages that said Saint Dominic was one of the most educated people in Europe because he owned 250 books.  It went on to illuminate the lack of illumination due to little villages being cut off from each other.  Would the Bubonic plague have devastated Europe if a Tweet went out saying "Ouch, stay indoors!"

It's just another example of the unprecedented age we live in, in which the sky is the limit when we combine our collective subconscious into the three letters of "www."

I'll be monitoring this blog more often now, and would appreciate you subscribing so that I know that there are people out there expecting me to string more syllables together.

Blessings to the max!