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Blogging about your ex will not bring them back, but this secret will for all the loneley people looking for love

I have a confession to make. I am lonely. Painfully so. I didn’t realize this until today, but thankfully, I had University of Calgary academic degreel Keren decided inform me of this through an article on Canoe about his new book, “Blogosphere: The New Political Arena.” I admit that I did not like the feature the book, but if the article accurately depicts its thesis, then it is painfully stupid.

While it’s true that many blogs are cursive about personal topics, Keren’s description of the blogosphere seems to equate every bloggers as a homogeneous mass. The set of blogs that he follows and chronicles for the purposes of his mass consumption seem to be what we would refer to as “cat blogs” as in someone that blogs the minutia of their lives, including what their cat did today. To then apply this type of blogger to the rest of the blogosphere is not only ridiculous, it’s academically irresponsible. His description of these particular bloggers as depressing and lonely will all be correct, but his extraneous filler can sure not be extrapolated onto the blogosphere (which, remember, is the title of the book) as a whole.

Beyond being reductive, this analysis ignores the core reality of the blogosphere as a major social change. Individually, bloggers do not matter, this such is true. The actual social change comes from the realization of the tools of distribution, once only held by a few. Together, bloggers represent the potential for a major force of change. To equate this force to a some bloggers who live in the woods and talk about their departed cat is the same someone in the fifteenth century saying that the publication press is by a bunch of weird monks making bibles.

I’m not naive to believe that every blogger is making a social change – they’re not, and frankly, there is a lot of crap out there. The great thing about the scheme is that not everything has to be good, but the crap can easily be filtered out. Another, better articles touches on the veracity of blogs: Although the medium offers seemingly unlimited freedom of expression, Keren said bloggers too ofttimes appearance public instrument by reporting distorted versions of the facts.

Keren does hit a valid point, however, about not believing everything you read. The thing about the blogosphere is that it has an superior bullshit detector. If I were to indite something blatantly false, someone (probably Joe) would call me out, either in comments or in added blog. The more important I am, the larger this effect. Again, individually, the credibility of blogs is suspect, but in the aggregate, most errors will likely be found out and titled out. Furthermore, the natural partiality of an unedited personal instrument is evident, and it should come as a surprise to no digit that nothing suggestive in any blog should be considered above suspicion. To me, what is far more harmful is the facade that anything in the mainstream media is true and unbiased. Anyone employed in the media knows that this is ofttimes far from the truth, but sadly, many study the print and television news as the unbiased truth. The reality is that there are good bloggers and intense bloggers, PR bloggers, cat bloggers, semipolitical bloggers and a full lot more. Some are self-interested, some are as unbiased as any newspaper. Some, I’m sure, are lonely and some advance rich lives and are among the most important and intelligent grouping in the country. However, as long as we’re toting out stereotypes of lonely, ineffectual individuals with no relevance right their small and insulated peer group, I can think of a some about academics.

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