Meet Joe Blog Jun14 '04
What makes blogs so effective? Blogs are fresh and often seem to be miles ahead of the mainstream news. Blogs have voice and personality. They’re human. They represent – no, they are – the voice of the little guy.
Blogs showcase some of the smartest, sharpest writing being published. Blogs don’t pretend to be neutral: they’re gleefully, unabashedly biased, and that makes them a lot more fun.
In a way, blogs represent everything the web was supposed to be: a mass medium controlled by the masses, in which getting heard depends solely on having something to say and the moxie to say it.
Unfortunately, there’s a downside to this populist sentiment – that is, innocent casualties bloodied by a medium that trades in rumor, gossip, and speculation without accountability.
Blogs can be a great way of communicating, but they can keep people apart too.
excerpt from Time magazine
All this, and more, is mentioned in the most recent issue (June 21, 2004) of Time magazine.
I’m excited, because I rely on blogs/informational sites for 95% of my news and information, on a daily basis. And obviously I write my own blog, so certainly this article jumped out at me.
It’s also kind of ironic that this article came out when it did, considering I just wrote the entry titled, Are web logs ruining the web?, just a few days ago. I’m sure Time noticed my article, and then proceeded to write their own, refuting my points. (That was sarcasm, yes)
What I mean to say is, in my OWN head, it’s ironic. So it’s ironic to no one but me. However, if there is just one person in this world who also read my entry, and then saw this Time article, and also considered the situation ironic... THEN I’d have to really wonder. I’d probably consider the latter situation even more ironic than the former.
In any case, the article is short and sweet. It contains lots of yummy links too.
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Never one to conform, Matt intends to promote the effect the web has on our lives, in an effort to intensify, instruct, and clarify all that is happening around us.
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