finding our voice....

I just started reading a new book that ended up not only being incredibly relevant to some situations at work, but it completely resonates with thoughts and feelings I have about the blogosphere. Don't you love it when someone poetically articulates feelings you already have?

This book actually cited the Cluetrain Manifesto, saying:

"All of us are finding our voices again. Learning how to talk to one another.... inside, outside, there's a conversation going on today that wasn't happening at all five years ago and hasn't been very much in evidence since the Industrial Revolution began. Now, spanning the planet via the Internet and Worldwide Web, this conversation is so vast, so multifaceted, that trying to figure out what it is about is futile. It's about a billion years of pent up hopes and fears and dreams coded in serpentine double helixes, the collective flashback deja vu of our strange perplexing species. Something ancient, elemental, sacred, something very very funny that's broken loose in the pipes and wires of the twenty-first century.... there are million and millions of threads in this conversation, but at the beginning and end of each one is a human being."

Beautiful.

That is what I love about the web, and the "universe of discourse" we call the blogosphere: that its really about finding our voice, and even more so, about hearing another's.