The NY Times has, amazingly, a sensible thought about blogs:
It’s natural enough to think of the growth of the blogosphere as a
merely technical phenomenon. But it’s also a profoundly human
phenomenon, a way of expanding and, in some sense, reifying the
ephemeral daily conversation that humans engage in. Every day the
blogosphere captures a little more of the strange immediacy of the life
that is passing before us. Think of it as the global thought bubble of
a single voluble species.
Absolutely. I’ve said it before myself, all of this talk and gossiping was going on before. Perhaps over the breakfast table, down the pub or across the garden fence but there’s nothing new about what’s being said. Just a wider audience for it and a little more permanence.
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