Ghost of a flea: Why blog?

August 14, 2004

Why blog?

INDC Journal considers the question: Why blog?

And when you think about it, it's pretty amazing that this alternate citizen-media culture has coalesced into a coherent medium and enriches the day-to-day lives of so many readers with pages and pages, and hours and hours of original punditry, news flitering, photography, artwork, political analysis, cathartic rants and catblogging ... for free. Free. There is very little profit motive here, and I'll be honest: some days, that kind of weirds me out. Look around; did you ever imagine that there were this many smart people, with this much talent, that have families and/or work full-time jobs, yet are willing to put on a daily dog and pony show for millions of readers? For free? It's like we're all part of some Marxist collective that actually works.

Hey, we're organic intellectuals! Even if we are not saying the things Marxist intellectuals expect of the people.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at August 14, 2004 10:03 AM

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Well, I succumbed to price pressures. I'm blegging for shoulder patches!

But other than that - I simply 'ditto' what Bill says. The number of smart, informed people I meet (even some of the lefties, heh) boggles.

I suspect it's disconcerting to the priveleged classes of the left, too - especially since the right-wingers aren't the knuckle-dragging android automatons they perceive us to be.

One reason we're outnumbered on the web (especially when considering traffic - look at Zuniga, or Atrios) is that most of us have jobs, we aren't students surfing on our parent's dollar/student loan funded broadband access, and we actually write checks for our access, our bandwidth, and our storage.

Posted by: John of Argghhh! at August 15, 2004 09:17 PM