Now that I've become completely piqued by the weblog epidemic, I realized this morning (after further procrastination on my Accounting project) that the weblog just may have saved the web. While the quality of news has gone down over the past few years (and probably more, but I have noticed an exceptional decline in the last two years), there has been an increase in the number of people creating their own type of news and commentary, namely through this blogging mechanism. When I first encountered blogs/weblogs, I thought... oh great, yet another passing web fad. In fact, I think because I was introduced to it through a friend in NYC, I discounted it even further as yet another yuppie invention for self indulgence. Let me say clearly, I was way off base and had I taken a closer look earlier, I might have noticed a trend that delights my soul - it's as if the Athenian markets were again open for debate... The difference, of course, is that much of what you read and see is not objective; it is thoroughly subjective - but most of those publishing their ideas and commentaries aren't selling it as if it were objective. So the difference is that we are seeing "news" for what it really is (and yes, Mr. Clinton, there is a definition to is) - commentary...
All hail the weblog!!! And for that, the net lives on.
Side Note:
As an example, I was surfing around and came across the following interesting sites within minutes:
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
potkettleblog
the New York Minute
cyborgirl.com : I want more life
Blogcritics
the RANT: A Journal of Independent Political Thought
