Something came to mind while reading today’s Sunday Times feature on blogging.<\/p>\n
Let’s look at these one at a time:<\/p>\n
The publicity is helpful because you will no longer have shouting matches when someone asks you what you’ve been doing.<\/p>\n
You say ‘blog’<\/p>\n
They look at you strangely and say ‘log?’.<\/p>\n
No, blog.<\/p>\n
Log?<\/p>\n
Blog!<\/p>\n
Log?<\/p>\n
No! B-L-O-G?<\/p>\n
Huh? Blog? Is that some type of log?<\/p>\n
Grrr.<\/p>\n
But at least some of them might’ve read the papers today. The other times I tell them, hey go look at up on a wiki.<\/p>\n
Weak?<\/p>\n
No, wiki!<\/p>\n
Wee Kee? Who?<\/p>\n
No, wiki!<\/p>\n
(ok, i’ll stop here).<\/p>\n
Remember William Gibson? Cyberpunk? Neuromancer? Bruce Sterling? Islands in the Net?<\/p>\n
Where are they now?<\/p>\n
Yup.<\/p>\n
Granted, the Sunday Times isn’t Time, well if you added a “S” and the word “Sunday” in front…<\/p>\n
But the moment it’s hit the mainstream consciousness, the concept loses it’s ‘conceptual purity’, it has to be ‘dumbed’ down to it’s ‘blogging for dummies’, ‘blogging for the IT-challenged’ minorities.<\/p>\n
Shall we celebrate?<\/p>\n
Horray.<\/p>\n
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HL Mencken said: The masses are asses.<\/p>\n
This is the part that really gets me. If you looked at the article, you’ll see that a ton of the blogs are hosted on blogger.com.<\/p>\n
What’s wrong, you say?<\/p>\n
Oh boy, we’ve just discovered another clueless one, Henry. prepare the surgical theatre, another sterilization on the way…<\/p>\n
If you are planning to make big money out of something, it’s worthwhile checking it out.<\/p>\n
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