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We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results. A perfect description of blogging, don't you think?
I started blogging some years ago largely to pass time and share experiences. A small part of me, however, was selfishly hoping for admiration and affirmation; a shallow attitude I've long abandoned.

Eventually, I discovered the joy found via "invisible threads" and "sympathetic fibers" - those human connections made along the way. Blogger tend to be a lovely comfort of strangers.Digital self publishers

The Blog, The Press, The Media: Walkley for expose of literary hoax as Herald writers shine at awards
The Sydney Morning Herald was recognised by the media industry, at the prestigious Walkley Awards in Melbourne last night, for its international expose of the author Norma Khouri.
The Herald's literary editor, Malcolm Knox, and its New York correspondent, Caroline Overington, won the Walkley award for investigative journalism after revealing that Khouri had lied about her past in her best-seller Forbidden Love.
The leading sports writer Phil Wilkins, who started his reporting career as a Fairfax copy boy in 1958 and worked for the Herald and The Sun-Herald covering Test matches, cricket world cups and rugby internationals, won the senior Walkley award for the most outstanding contribution to journalism.
• [AFR Team, The Australian Financial Review, "Rivkin's Swiss Bank Scandal" - Neil Chenoweth, Shraga Elam, Rosemarie Graffagnini, Andrew Main, Colleen Ryan AFR INVESTIGATION: OFFSET ALPIN (subscrivers only) ]
• · It's not hard to get nominated for the Walkley Awards, the nation's premier prizes for excellence in jounalism. Just sign a form and send it in to the journo's union, the MEAA. The real trick is getting shortlisted. This is the cream of the crop, and the highly anticipated list is to be announced tonight by the good comradesd at the Mee Too union
• · · The Media Company I Want to Work For-- Not Someday, But Now Had to say about it
• · · · Let's get this party started. As usual, Rex Sorgatz has collected the "Best Of" lists this year. Last year, The Times wrote about it, so he is obliged. Of The Year ... Entire List: The Best Of 2004 List
• · · · · 2004 Weblog Awards ; [ And Eugene Volokh on how you can blog, but you can't hide]
• · · · · · Tim Russert is a great journalist, but he made a mistake last weekend