Blogs, The "New Thing"

Another Case Of Blog Talk About Blogs!

When I hear people on TV talk about blogs as the New Thing, they all mean Political Blogs. People on TV live in TV-land and don't seem to know much else. I wouldn't want to forbid people one way or the other, but it's not my impression that political blogs are the most numerous, exciting, or popular aspect of blogs among the public. It's just what the boneheads on TV happen to notice. For my part, I hope the millions of very individual blogs about "nothing in particular" or about "my life as I know it" or about "where I poop and you don't" manage to survive and prosper. I guess it's good to be a deadly serious politico, on a blog or elsewhere, but it isn't new.

What's new about blogs is that, other than graffiti, there's never been this kind of opportunity for just anybody to display his views. It's even a little more respectable than graffiti! Well, I'm not, but some are. Most of us are doing it for free, but it's also a way of being or feeling free, and that ain't bad payment for freedom. If any of you are noticeably more ambitious than I am, that's okay—good for you! Go on, blog your way onto TV news shows, and take the money and run.

Sorry if this is insulting to any of you political bloggers—I wish you a world of good luck—it's just that you're not what's most new and important about blogging. Revolutionaries have done political "blogging" since the invention of moveable type. He who cannot afford a newspaper hands out leaflets! But personal blogging, done for the fun of it and that's available at low cost or no cost to the average person and can be made available around the planet is new. Books have been written about Everyman before now, but now Everyman and Everywoman are writing the books! It isn't all Great Literature, but neither are most of the things you read and hear. What it is, is Good Fun, and some of it's clever, too. So, listen, all you self-important talking heads on the news shows who always think you know what's important in the world can stuff it! You only half-get it about blogs and I'm tired of hearing it.

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Special thanks to my energetic and talkative friend Cricket. I stole this topic from her. I don't know where she stole it. That's not true. Click on her link below to see. May she churp, churp forever! [Also, click on Comments for this post and read Cricket's own additional remarks.]

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