RandomDot - 7:21 am on Sep 26, 2007 (gmt 0)

I keep asking this question to myself every single day. I am pretty interested in the blogging topic and I read lots of articles on that, yet they all seem somewhat similar to me. Sure they have different wording and structure but the main idea they deliver to the readers is "nothing new under the sun" if you know what I mean.

The internet is actually, when it comes down to it, not something really big yet - it has its golden moments if you're looking for information on some topic, but it usually requires a philanthropist to make something, which took years if not decades to learn, public available and then to see it be torn to pieces by various people who never made the effort. It's not funny to see that happen to something you worked hard for. That's also a reason why the internet is still in its infancy, people haven't started working hard - they're just looking for the easy way, all the time, without contributing with anything themselves of a substantial value. User mentality. Not going to change. Don't think about it, just accept it.

With regards to blogging - There could be numerous reasons for this rinse and repeat method of blogs: People don't have anything to say themselves or don't dare to say anything which could be slightly out of order (because their friends or family or co-workers know the website) so they just repeat what other people say and write in order to serve at least something to whatever visitors they might have which is political correct and acceptable within the community if you want to be a part of the or any community actually.

The topic at hand could also be fully explored and the idea which is served again and again is really the answer. There's alot of .... answers which could be given in a general sense without being specific - on the other hand - the blog is for all that I care about it just a reinvention of the diary. (new name, totally cool huh?) so i've always had problems taking them seriously, but that's a personal preference and bias, and no offense meant to anybody doing it in a more serious way or using it as another tool than that.

But it is funny to look at things from the perspective of "is it even usefull?" - because even within the literary world, where some of those creative wackos hang out which are usually pretty fast to catch on to new ideas, concepts and ways of doing things, people are very reluctant to do anything worth thinking a second thought about on the internet, but on the other hand - most of the literary world has also just become an author-to-author talkative scene, not much doing or creating there - and then again - most people don't write or share information for the fun of it - because in a competitive environment, that's the worst scenario you could put yourself in if you wanted to make a living out of it and get some food on the table, and not end up with your master piece everywhere else than where it's supposed to be and what it's supposed to give you: You Know What You Want.

There's probably also a reason why the academic world, libraries and most of the really resourceful indexes and such have not gone online fullscale on the international internet - (in my country its pretty evolved though, can download books from the library which expires a month after, rent videos on demand, online encyclopedias, dictionaries, reference works, even a poetry collection of all authors pre 1918 ;) and you can even order lunch for your kids in school... but that's all just possible because it's a very small country and not much bureaucracy to set something up)

Besides from that, then think about googles index of 8 or so billion pages. Sounds impressive? It's not. Compare that to how many people are online - and then to how many have their own website and are actually creating something .... it's not even a fraction of the information published through traditional media every single day)

I write too much, but sincerely, and have fun,