This past week marks the 10-year anniversary of blogs and blogging. NPR ran a fairly decent series about blogs this past week. The link provides a history of the blog but, really, hasn't the essence of blogging been around for centuries? The "inter-webs" just provides another portal for people to campaign and to catalog, their ideas and thoughts. Is posting one's thoughts on a blog any different than spending a Sunday morning to go to Speaker's Corner in London's Hyde Park to expatiate on whatever random subject that seems important that day as people have been doing since the mid-1800's ? Of course, there's the anonymity a blog provides and comfort of being at home but isn't the idea of a discourse of the truth and speech still there? The blog is just another evolution of that ideal.
It's not lost on me that anything written in a blog may stay in cyberspace for an unknown quantity of time. Blogs are providing tomorrow's anthropologists with a treasure of data and information (along with a lot of crap --including my own blog). The Indiana Jones of the future won't be running around Egypt trying to find the Rosetta Stone but discovering obsolete computer code to decipher the secrets of primitive blogs.
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