I have a friend, who I met in the comments here and then continued getting to know via the various social networks, named Paul Roberts.

Paul, if you don’t know him, is a fellow communications professional. He also, until very recently, was an avid blogger.

A blogger who was writing as an experiment. A blogger who knows you can’t fully understand the social web unless you actually use it. A blogger who doesn’t want to recommend communications tool unless he’s tried them out himself first.

And now he’s retiring from blogging.

When I first read his blog post about retiring, my heart hurt a little bit. But then I really thought about what he said and I’m OK with it now.  (more…)