Those of us who have toiled or even played on the internet for any length of time—and especially those of us who do it for long hours every day—know the value of internet friends. And those of us who literally put themselves out there in mind and spirit in the hope of expressing themselves or explaining their thoughts—know the value of good, quality feedback. Barbara Kay just lost one of those friends—one of those valuable people in her life, and talks about it this week in the Columnist section. She calls him “The best reader a columnist could have”. Here’s a snippet:
[…] I say “friend” in quotation marks because I never actually met Robert and likely never would have. And I say “parallel” because Robert—or Bob as he soon became—was my column’s very first, then most frequent, and eventually most cherished “fellow traveller.”
Bob and I enjoyed an Internet-facilitated sub-category of friendship, that of high-frequency e-conversationalists. Bob was my “ideal reader.” It’s fair to say I have been writing over the past two years “for” him, subliminally projecting Bob’s expectations of logic, style and topicality as the standard I strive for in my weekly column. […]
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