What in the world is up with the world of blogs?
Blogs are meant to be this great new technology where people can share
their ideas and interests with others around the globe. As far as I’m
concerned the state of blogs is one of chaos, confusion, and
anti-interactivity. The other day I decided to do some research on the
Web and try to connect to some blog writers out there that interested
me. Let me tell you it was not an enjoyable task as I had envisioned. I
spent four painful hours surfing through around a thousand on-line
journals, and I found only a few that interested me. What are we doing
out there people?
First of all, just getting to a blog can be a pain
in the arse. For example, you type in the words ‘Philosophy blogs’ and
a whole bunch of sites come up. Some are conglomerate sites with
thousands of journals, but the area you’re searching for may have only
one blog in it! This is because they separate the blogs into a million
different categories, like ‘love’, ‘lovers’, ‘lovable’ etc. Why not
have just a few main categories to choose from?
The next problem is the content. People with
‘philosophical’ blogs are having personal chats with their mates about
the local dance competition on Tuesday! Why not go to a chat room if
you just want to talk to your friends? Blogs are supposed to be a
personal viewpoint expressed to the whole Web community. Wouldn’t you
actually like to meet more people like yourself? How is this going to
happen if you talk in strange uncommon slang and acronyms that you and
your friends can only understand? Please stick to the subject at hand,
and take it at least half seriously.
Another major problem is the fact that you can
find a really cool blog that sparks an interest, but then find that the
writer hasn’t added an entry in over a year! What’s it doing on the
Net? Have these people passed away? I seriously doubt it, as there are
so many blogs in this ‘lost’ state. Having a blog is a responsibility;
it’s a shared diary for the whole community. How can someone form a
relationship if you only write in your blog once a millennium?
Back to the subject of content: These on-line
journals are a real chance to communicate regularly with others with
similar views to yourself. We can learn a lot from each other, as each
human is an individual with special traits and skills that only they
have. So why do we see so many blogs just talking about trivial
nonsense like ‘Who the coolest movie actor is.’ Humanity is an
intelligent species evolving everyday towards a higher consciousness.
So where are all the thinkers out there, the people who have taken us
to the next levels of spirituality and scientific exploration? I’d
really like to hear what you’ve got to say, but all I can find are
philosophical beliefs on why died pink jeans express one’s true inner
self.
The issue of making comments on someone’s blog is
also a controversial one. Why have comments sections if you’re not
going to reply to people who have expressed an interest in what you’ve
had to say? How is this community going to function if all the
conversation is one-way! Come on people, wake up and smell the onions!
Let’s change the blogging community into the awesome structure of
shared knowledge that it was intended for. Please don’t let it turn
into the small-talk world of chat rooms.
Jesse S. Somer
M6.Net
http://www.m6.net
Jesse S. Somer is a concerned human attempting to inform his fellow
people of the real possibilities hidden in the Internet.
