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Jill Walker and Me

The Media Ecology Conference started this past Thursday here at R.I.T. I’m presenting Blogs: A First Person Narrative in Real Time, which is appropos since the best thing about the conference (and there are several very nice things) is having met the lovely Jill Walker.

Jill is only the second person I’ve met whom I met initially online. And my primary sense of her has been her blog (and 3 or 4 messaging sessions).

Reading blogs (and this is why I think my talk is appropos) you get a sense of the author. Maybe even get itty bitty pictures to suggest a likeness. But the words…Snippets of life, the cheese sandwich, and the way she has of turning a phrase. They all create a sense of person.

The danger, of course, is that it’s a filtered version. And you don’t know what’s been left out - or, conversely, if what you’re seeing is all there is.

Narrative structure. Context. Problem. Resolution. (The talk is in 2 hours, still thinking…)

Jill is.

Like going on a blind date, driving to the coffeehouse to meet up with Liz and Jill, I felt shy and hoped she’d like me and that she was going to be the person I hoped she’d be.

She is. She’s smart, and funny. She looks like her pictures. What you don’t get is the lovely alto voice with an Aussie accent. Happy ending. And likely the beginning of good friendship. Can I say it again? She’s groovy.

Posted 06/12/2004
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