This is from the SST Denis Dutton's "Arts & Letters Daily".
I agree about the "spite and aggression" and thankfully, and thank you to readers of this blog, we don't get much of it here. Most comments of this type are easy to ignore because they say more about the mentality of the poster than the merit of their ideas.
Letters-to-the-editor aside, where there is a lack of immediacy and no guarantee of publication, newspapers aren't interactive. Just as talkback radio took off and is now a firmly established part of the media culture, blogs have a similar future. People want interaction. They want to be able to express their own view and hear others, though I suspect the first is more important.
As an "alternative venue" for testing riskier ideas, blogs have no parallel.
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If Dutton really believes that the blogosphere is the "enemy of thought" then one wonders what blogs he visits.
There are thousands of blogs out there which contain thoughtful, well-researched material.
Since most of the traditional media is leftist dominated, I wonder how much complaints about blogs are driven by the fact that other voices are being heard, voices which have been effectively stifled by the media.
The last U.S. and N.Z. elections were a good example of media bias (and outright lies) being exposed by bloggers.
The blogosphere is still very much a free-for -all and we should welcome that. After all, we're all free to choose the blogs we read and to follow the links they offer.
Sturgeons Law "95% of everything is crud"
It applies to blogs as well as everything else.
Here's another view. This one from Jonah Goldberg
The Brave New World Wide Web
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