Greetings Economists, Ravi wrote, blogs are web sites that serve as a sort of online journal. more oriented towards "thought dumps" (and commentary) than discussion (which is better served by lists).
Doyle, You know there are other ways to describe the process. Max's point earlier is interesting. The replies in blogs disappear in the archives. The lists have archives too, but who looks at them? The enormous production of thoughts and exchanges is not very well served by the contemporary technology. Doug Henwood, Daniel Davies wrote: >basically, the same way in which crack cocaine is different from normal >cocaine. In the sense that with the former, you end up as a burned-out solitary, and in the latter, with a bunch of people chattering insensibly at each other? Doyle, Just a joke huh? I don't think so. It's where journalism is headed. It's a primitive in terms of technology, conversational structure waiting for big business to develop and leave behind a putrid heap of stinking egos. You know what I like Doug? I like this coming world that liberates me and builds community. Makes me on a par with you. You know the whole of me is out there, warts and all. My aspirations, my mistakes, and a search engine can find it. It's where a new kind of reality for working people can emerge. Like Max said the archive is ignored. The meaning still is to be found. But it's coming. That liberates me. That means my voice is there now. Not invisible compared to the big egos. And billions of us combined into something someday. So that position in the hierarchy of the media doesn't suppress our voices any more. Step by step this century we'll supplant the big egos. And put in it's place a society in which the communal voice is more important than the big egos. The blogs are liberation. I can go find the voice of young lesbians, and black people, and anyone anywhere. And find what they are saying. And next, all of them will begin to weave together a common voice. Not a TV rating, a common work thread of the community. And we'll pull down the egos and the hand labor of intellectual work. Ha Ha funny stuff Doug! thanks, Doyle
