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War: Who was it good for?
: The Guardian asks who benefitted from the war. Among the many constituencies: bloggers.
News websites have been visited heavily throughout the war, but it’s the bloggers – unofficial diarists recording events both grand and insignificant – who have been the real internet winners.
I’m very new to blogging, and this site has afforded excellent opportunities for learning about the medium and its culture.
If I might make one general comment…the strength of Bloggery…instant access to breaking stories from a range of perspectives…is also its weakness. I can get completely absorbed in all this new input, but it’s of uncertain accuracy and value…rather like listening to a reporter in the field shouting into a phone from the front lines. That’s a perspective, but not a particularly valuable one: there’s more substance to the edited story four hours later, and more still to the weekend backgrounder that appears a couple of days later. Facts have been established, events are in perspective, and thoughtful minds have had a chance to process the undifferentiated tide of input.
I’m sure this observation is already a clich
Well, what do you win Jeff?
Danjo
PS: Haven’t said it before, but thanks for the blog site. Part of my daily routine now to check in everyday.
Good points, Mr. Balbulican.
To your concluding question: The Blog is a device. A tool. In the right hands, it can provide the value that you describe. And if your goal is to create a more analytical dimension to whatever topic you choose, then blog on sir.
Agreed Jeff, bravo also.
My linking stinks, but I humbly request for a how-to link whereby I may learn some basics. Daily access here is now so routine for this new blog fan that I have begun the insurance policy of paying my internet bill on time.
I actually like the immediacy of a wide scope of first-draught takes on a given subject, and by following the links, I can become my own editor. I don’t know if this is the point of blogging, but it beats the hell out of watching CNN.
Blogging also seems to irk the established media, as slipped by Aaron Brown’s “who’s editing this stuff anyway?”.
That alone is worth a subscription fee.
I like how the Iraqi people didn’t figure into that long list of winners. I guess they lost. I guess life got a lot worse for them once Saddam was toppled.
Bloody Guardian.