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How Blogging is just like Dancing the Hula

After two weeks soaking up the Hawaiian sun, it was hard for me to remember the Internet, let alone worry about blogging, but once you start focusing on business communications, it's impossible to completely let go. As a result, when we started hearing so much about the international Merrie Monarch hula festival taking place on the Big Island while we were there, I started to get quite intrigued by hula, not as dance, but as a communications channel, as a method by which the Hawaiians transmit their own oral history and culture.

Hmm... blogging's all about inventing and creating communications channels too, isn't it, and the best bloggers are storytellers who are focused on the culture of technology, business and society just as much as on the specifics of their story.

And so...

The Surprising Similarities Between Blogging and Hula Dancing

I hope you enjoy it!