As you can see I seem to have missed a month on the blog post. Then again that is assuming anyone actually reads this page. Maybe this page will be like "Open Source Church" one day? One moment you have blog after blog after blog and the next you realize no one is looking so what is the point?
I read Vox Popoli regularly and he has a considerable regular following. By that regard he is a successful blogger. However he is the first to state that he does not need the comments to continue speaking. "If tree falls in the forest but no one is there, does it make a sound?" could easily be changed to "If a blog has no readers is it still a blog?". I guess it would always have a reader of one, assuming the poster reads their own blog, but it does beg the question of how the Blog works in the modern internet world?
Traditional media is giving way to the electronic version and is being forced to change or die. But even the blogs die. Many people have turned to the New York Times, and Wall Street Journel for decads but now many people look at other text of a not so traditional kind. Places like Drudge Report and Hot Joints, or any number of other sites, but what is the longjevaty?
Then again is this a bad thing for news repository to die out? Is it better for their to be a constent refreshing of the news pool?
It does make reseach a little harder. In the past you could go to the local library and get back issue magazines and news paper on microphish. But what about blog's today? If you document your research and site a blog for the news it posted can you count on it to be there in 10 years? The Internet Archives' wayback machine is a great idea, but even it cannot resolve all the problems that happen with data that goes missing. Some site require authentication to pull up a text and then require you to use their own method of view their archives often with some kind of fee. It is still possible for this information to be lost.
Isac Asmov's Prelude to Foundation addressed this thought of data loss. In the book the global data system
had been working for centuries and the sociaty had become stagnent. Nothing new was really going on. Technology was being maintained but nothing new was really being built and if something broke beyond the point repair it was neglected and ignored, not replaced with a new model or fixed by someone with more knowledge. Even data in the system was lost. Eventaully it would just be come data that was so old that no one cared anymore.
The internet is the early evolution of a super computer system that the world connects to. One day the network that people will use will be nothing like we have now. That is the montra of technology. However I forsee some of the same problems then as now. Data will become so vast that people will lose it. Knowledge will be so consuming that we will be made dumber by it if we are not careful. Go watch Wall-e if you wish to see the possiblity of our future. I don't mean the "we all leave earth aspect" but how we may get comfortable with the technolgoy and let it replace our lives. Instead of seeing people face to face we will be talking to our neighbor on the front pourch with a HUD and microphone sipping our "fresh grilled hamburger" through a straw.
I read Vox Popoli regularly and he has a considerable regular following. By that regard he is a successful blogger. However he is the first to state that he does not need the comments to continue speaking. "If tree falls in the forest but no one is there, does it make a sound?" could easily be changed to "If a blog has no readers is it still a blog?". I guess it would always have a reader of one, assuming the poster reads their own blog, but it does beg the question of how the Blog works in the modern internet world?
Traditional media is giving way to the electronic version and is being forced to change or die. But even the blogs die. Many people have turned to the New York Times, and Wall Street Journel for decads but now many people look at other text of a not so traditional kind. Places like Drudge Report and Hot Joints, or any number of other sites, but what is the longjevaty?
Then again is this a bad thing for news repository to die out? Is it better for their to be a constent refreshing of the news pool?
It does make reseach a little harder. In the past you could go to the local library and get back issue magazines and news paper on microphish. But what about blog's today? If you document your research and site a blog for the news it posted can you count on it to be there in 10 years? The Internet Archives' wayback machine is a great idea, but even it cannot resolve all the problems that happen with data that goes missing. Some site require authentication to pull up a text and then require you to use their own method of view their archives often with some kind of fee. It is still possible for this information to be lost.
Isac Asmov's Prelude to Foundation addressed this thought of data loss. In the book the global data system
had been working for centuries and the sociaty had become stagnent. Nothing new was really going on. Technology was being maintained but nothing new was really being built and if something broke beyond the point repair it was neglected and ignored, not replaced with a new model or fixed by someone with more knowledge. Even data in the system was lost. Eventaully it would just be come data that was so old that no one cared anymore.
The internet is the early evolution of a super computer system that the world connects to. One day the network that people will use will be nothing like we have now. That is the montra of technology. However I forsee some of the same problems then as now. Data will become so vast that people will lose it. Knowledge will be so consuming that we will be made dumber by it if we are not careful. Go watch Wall-e if you wish to see the possiblity of our future. I don't mean the "we all leave earth aspect" but how we may get comfortable with the technolgoy and let it replace our lives. Instead of seeing people face to face we will be talking to our neighbor on the front pourch with a HUD and microphone sipping our "fresh grilled hamburger" through a straw.
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