[PLUG-TALK] An a-ha! moment

Dale F. Victor dalefv at iinet.com
Fri Dec 9 22:57:40 UTC 2005


Hello!

Thanks for the thoughts. I have never really read one. I will try to find  
something useful and check them out.

Any recomendations?

Dale

On Saturday 10 December 2005 08:22 pm, Russell Senior wrote:
> >>>>> "Rich" == Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> writes:
>
> Rich>    The concept of 'blogs' finally made sense to me when I read
> Rich> in today's newspaper that blogs are today's version of Citizen's
> Rich> Band radio, popular in the 1970s and 1980s. Now I understand
> Rich> their popularity.
>
> Funny, that's what I used to say about the WWW in the mid-90s when it
> started to "become popular".  And yet, it obviously had utility beyond
> its novelty.
>
> Blogs are just a manifestation of individuals taking back their
> freedom of expression (and, implicitly, the freedom to share that
> expression) from the hoarding media conglomerates.  Freedom of
> expression doesn't guarantee quality expression, but it makes quality
> expression possible.
>
> Naturally, the hoarding media conglomerates are horrified by anything
> that might expand the narrow bounds of thinkable thought that they
> wish to perpetuate (buy, consume, rinse, repeat), so anything bad they
> say about blogs or wikis or other thought out of their control begins
> with a presumption of grave doubt.



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