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December 29, 2005
Bloggers are Evil
Ace fisks the heck out of an article by a conservative suspicious of blogs. Reading Ace's entry, and the conversation that follows, makes me wonder again why I spend so much time doing this.
It always comes back to two things - it keeps me from yelling at the television and annoying my wife; and it's just fun to write and have it read by at least a dozen people. I've always enjoyed putting my thoughts on paper (or in this case, on pixel) and blogging is just a fun way to do that without too much pressure.
Plus, it's allowed me to converse with people I would not otherwise have met, and that has to count for something, right? I mean, as much as I disagree with commenters like Bill, it's pretty darn cool that a guy from a different state and I can talk politics.
Posted by slublog at December 29, 2005 12:27 AM
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The world is a small place. I think people there is power in freedom of speech. And look at the new landscape, now that mainstream media is infected by partisan reporters...
THEY would say the Internet and Blogs are evil, but look at the swiftboats and the Bush Guard papers -- I would say that Bloggers are a new force and the powerful do not know how to deal with it.
The article stinks of a person who would declare that democracy is a failure because "lower class" are not capable of self-rule. Yes, the Internet is a lot like the "million monkeys with typewriters" expression -- but you can't dismiss it all because the possibility exists that a teen-ager might blog about the mall one day and international commerce policy the next day.
Posted by: ChrisHillman at December 29, 2005 03:38 PM
When does the fun part start?
Posted by: digitalbrownshirt at December 29, 2005 07:53 PM