Blogosphere
From time to time I use this Rabbi character. A while back he didn't know what the Web was. The Dry Bones cartoon to the right is from August 2003. Okay, I'll admit it. I'm worried. 
I got into the Internet before there was the Web. It was a time that pioneering souls felt the freedom of instant communications, email, etc. Then came the World wide Web. We could see pictures! ...and didn't have to use unix commands. Then more and more people began to get their own "Home Pages". In the final(?) stage, the web has become a giant Department Store, and email has turned into a giant spam magnet!So now I'm worried about the Blogosphere!!
It's still warm and personal, but with increased popularity, what will it turn into?
Like I say, I'm worried.
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Warm and personal? I think there are something like 5 million blogs out there!
to cosmic x,
personal has nothing to do with numbers. there are gazillions of telephones, yet the telephone remained warm and personal as long as when it rang i knew that someone was calling to speak with me. or that when i dialed a number a person would answer.
it began to change when telemarketing got going. complete with recordings calling me.
Then came speech recognition robots answering my calls and talking me through audio menus!!!
YIKES!
so yes, i think that the blogosphere is still warm and personal... compared to what it probably will turn into. remember:
these are the good old days.
There may bve five million blogs, but there's only one Yaakov Kirschen.
That is a very, very good point. Wow.
I would guess that blogs do have the power to remain "warm and personal".
Prove from analogy:
Even though there are Catalogs and Fashion-Magazines, to me the relationship between me and a book has a personal, almost intimate touch. Me, the book, nothing else, no time, no space.
There will be, or already are, "circles of trust" among bloggers. There is only a certain number of blogs that I (can) read every day. Usually I am at a similar wavelength with them and so they read my blogs too. There is no "instant coziness" of course, but step by step I have the feeling of getting to know my readers and the people I read.
Just my two cents...
(Getting ready for fasting? :-))
I'm in the opposite situation, technology-wise. I just found out that my old yeshivah now has podcasts, and I still don't have an iPod...
Ralphie,
Not that I'm being an anorak (well I am), you don't need an Ipod to hear podcasts...
If you have not yet noticed, the spam bots have learn to infect blog comments. It is fast becoming necessary to use the word verification to block them from posting their unwanted ads as comments.
So will somebody explain to me what a blog is?
Hey, will somebody explain to me what an anorak is?
An anorak (UK) is a parka (US). Where it becomes interesting is here:
a boring person who is too interested in the unimportant details of a hobby and finds it difficult to meet and spend time with other people:
- There are enough facts and figures in this book to keep even the most obsessive anorak fascinated for hours.
[http://www.freesearch.co.uk]
I understand what you mean, and I share some of that fear - but I mostly think we will always find a way to retain some of that warmth as things evolve[/devolve]. I am worried abt it as a general trend though, we are no longer given the courtesy of being able to entertain ourselves when, say, riding the tube, we must be entertained AT ALL TIMES, no time or space for our own thoughts. I crave the silence more and more even as I unwillingly and willingly add to the planetary rumpus.
Yeah...I worry about blogs too. I wrote one on spam myself.
Hey, I'd love to exchange blog links. I'm at www.billsbitterpills.blogspot.com.
A blog can be just as warm as personal as the person writing it. Yaakov seems very much of both, to me, and thus his blog is too.
And when your website morphs into a blog, it becomes a blogsite. See www.b17sam.com
wow
A blog is just a technology, like ink, it can be used to write Mein Kampf or the Bible. Do you worry about the Inkosphere?
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