by Anonymoses Hyperlincoln
August 1, 2004
"You try scrubbing. You try soaking."
(Anonymoses on greed and dishonesty in the bloated Media.)
I have essentially been blogging online since 1994. It just wasn't called that.
Blogging, or web logging, is, in its essence, a presence on the web, a blank slate (tools and tricks nothwithstanding) whereon a bloke or blokess may transfer the contents of his or her mind -- and, in the best cases, receive feedback for said contents. Feedback serves as a self-correcting tool, as others are allowed to show one the unwisdom of one's ways.
How many times have you heard one-way windbags exhorting their fixed ideas, which themselves could be pricked and deflated by the simplest statement, fact or principle?
Blogs allow you this safeguard against such mental squandering.
But even if one taketh no comment, one does at least have an easy way to write one's thoughts, which itself may cause the writer to better consider his or her thoughts and thought processes.
And unlike most forums and messageboards, blogs self-archive. How many years of writing swallowed by such messageboards, never to be retrieved! I could have compiled volumns!
In fact, I went through the added step of copying and pasting a month's worth of messageboard writing, in May of 2001, and it came to roughly 200 pages. All of which was fussed over, as if it were going to press.
This set me to thinking about alternatives. And blogging showed itself to be the best alternative...at least as regards archiving. Forums and messageboards are still good places for wider exchange, and, depending on the forum, may have a much more transformative effect upon one's thinking.
There are great blogs out there that treat of all manner of subject, but among the more interesting ones, at the moment, are the political blogs. And many have banded together to form coalitions, guilds, networks and so on. One can get a notion of the extremes of one's party by examining raw blogs. And by that, I mean those (most of them) that are not edited and passed through a gatekeeper.
IN PROGRESS...
