This statement could be applied to just about every technology: “either your an iPhone user, or you’re not”, “an email user, or not…” The problem with making binary statements like this is twofold — it confuses the medium with the message, and secondly, it implies technological determinism.

I suppose that blogging once or twice a week (and replying to Kent’s posts) makes me a blogger. But this form of public dialog can also take place over listservs, in person (viz SSP Roundtable), or (gulp) even in print newspapers. The blog can represent a fast form of online, semi-formal publishing, and given the time writing and editing posts, and vetting comments, can seem like it is working like (gulp) other traditional sources.

The fact that I don’t have a cellphone would appear to put me into the Luddite camp — someone who has rejected the marvels of modern technology and resisted how this tool could change my life for the better. But I seem to function quite fine without it.

So let me finish my blog reply so I can go out and hoe my vegetable garden.