Comments on: dispatches from blogistan

By: Winslie Gomez

Winslie Gomez — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:06:23 +0000

Glad to be of assistance Carol.

So strange looking back at something I wrote as an embryonic blogger.

Have fun! If I come across anything else will let you know.

By: delhi4cats

delhi4cats — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:09:26 +0000

Thanks for the great review. If I cannot find the book here in Saudi Arabia I’ll certainly have to add it to the list to be “sent from home.”

Regards,
American Bedu

By: justlearningman

justlearningman — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:56:33 +0000

Thanks Daryl, You ask some searching and valid questions and will try and give my take on things with the limited knowledge I have.
“Is blogging here to stay?” – I think so, although it will evolve beyond recognition within a few years.
Agree that it’s here to stay and evolve it will, but I believe we will develop better filters.
A physical example could be; Liz Hurley arrives in India, Mumbai to be precise, what exactly did she see of that city or was she escorted and closeted away from reality of the street. Similarly the web will create filters so that you probably never have any dealings with Ms Belinda or all the other morass of detritus that will crawl out of the gutter (no insult meant towards Ms Belinda or anyone else for that matter).
Will this lead to elitism within that medium? Possibly, we already witness it in the language used by some sites that deal with sport or just everyday hassles.
Imagine a well stocked newsagent, you don’t read every magazine or periodical from its top shelf to beano on the floor.
Information overload is not something people put up with, they just dump all that they don’t need and stick with that which satisfies.
As for the written word and the beauty in language, Chaucer was good too, so have we lost anything?
Language is a means of communication and is constantly evolving I trust you are not referring to the Logos theory.
Christ returning, that’s a massive subject in its own right, and Daryl why don’t you write a post relating to that and see the response you get. Good Luck!

By: Darryl

Darryl — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:28:34 +0000

“Is blogging here to stay?” – I think so, although it will evolve beyond recognition within a few years.
Already, sites like YouTube enable any nutter to publish their ‘thoughts’ as a video clip, it’s only a matter of time before this technology is used for blogging.

My main concern is that through such a proliferation of pointless/low quality communication, the written word is loosing its authority. Years ago, the cost of publishing a written piece meant that only work deemed worthy of publication would be printed, but now, even a linguistic streaker like me can sprint naked across the WWW!

The result of this ‘over-communication’ is that those who have important stuff to say are being drowned out by the cacophony of nutter-speak. How would Gandhi spread the message of non co-operation to the masses today? People would be too busy reading the emotional dispatches of a 14yr old girl in Nevada on ‘Belindasblog.com’!

I wonder, when Christ returns, will He write a blog to communicate to the masses? And more importantly, if it was worded like the New Testament, would anyone read it?