Why blog?
05/05/08 05:15:16 | 0
I don't want to sound like the 2,000-year-old man or anything, but this isn't the Internet I grew up with. I came of cyber-age on one of the first
online services, called GEnie, where the "roundtables" consisted of a message board, chat room, and file library for all sorts of niche interests,
just like we see today with certain forums, blogs and websites-but not really. The difference is that those were true communities, and that really has nothing
to do with the technology or how it is used. It comes down to the people, and the shared interest in a subject that brings them together under one (virtual)
roof.
The fragmentation I see today has all but killed real online communities. It reminds me of the Flash kid's complaint in The Incredibles: if everybody is
special, then nobody is. Frankly, I don't have the time or the inclination to go running around like a demented trick or treater to everybody's front
door, particularly when (let's get real) most...