Blog on Blogging

Blogging Has Changed The Way We Communicate

     In thinking about how Blogging has changed the way we communicate, my mind drifts to an opening vignette in Mel Brook’s History of the World Part 1, where the camera fades from black onto caveman Sid Caesar painting an antelope on a rock wall. The iconic voice of Orson Welles begins to narrate the scene: “Even in most primitive man, the need to create was part of his nature…” Well, I don’t need to describe it. This is a blog after all, you can watch it yourself:

     Blogging is but the current incarnation of human creative self-expression and the criticism of others. If we really look at what’s out there in the “Blogosphere” most blogs can fall within these two camps of creation or criticism. And it seems the big money makers are all about the criticism. Critiquing new tech fads, stock options, politics, or even life itself. We seem to love reading about other people's opinions.

      And in my opinion, the only thing blogging has really done is to make those opinions more accessible. Once, our opinions were kept safe and to ourselves, possibly unveiled every other Thursday at the local coffee house. Now, every single person has the power to unleash their thoughts and feelings to everyone, everywhere. What consequences might this have for the world? Well, for one, we could simply not contribute, and go on living unscathed. But what about those who are already subscribed? Those who say blogging is the blossoming of true democracy and the downfall of government and corporate owned media? It could be a good thing. It could be a bad thing, an unvetted form of yellow journalism, or as Thomas Jefferson wrote in his blog, “Democracy is nothing but mob rule….”  Or worse, it’s the death of the fourth estate: