“Tudor,” I think I understand your point and I know I love your enthusiasm. However, I think your recent post sounds like it’s from a non-blogger’s perspective, more than from the throws and tussles of the daily blog hex that grips many of us.
RE: “Bloggers take for granted that blogging is transforming the communication and generation of information.” – - I don’t agree. I think bloggers realize this significantly more than all of the other players in this community (readers, critics, writers, etc.). And, that’s part of what’s exciting and energizing about doing it. Speaking as a blogger, I say that “we” do know that blogging is transformational. As with any new technology or new communication medium, I think it’s the current status quo (read: traditional media in this case) that takes for granted that blogging is uprooting and challenging them.
Having said that, I still get excited when an A-list blogger links to me or one of my posts or makes a comment. I still get excited when any efforts that I’m involved in get into any printed medium or when new people comment on my ramblings. I think that if anyone doesn’t get it, it’s the status quo. They should be excited that we link to them!
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Hi. Great to hear your blogging view. As you deduced, I’m a wannabe blogger of about six weeks. I’m also a serious contrarian which is one of the lesser known signs of the zodiac. Not sure if there’s any serious disagreement. From what I’ve come across bloggers are a pretty mixed bunch, presumably growing in numbers and diversity. I’m looking forward to learning more about you – sorry, us. I suppose I’d argue that in such a fast growing community there will be reflective and nonreflective members, ofmore, or of less, transformational intent and impact.
As to what’s going on, it reminds of Dylan Thomas’s words (OK he was a modern poet when I was growing up). Perhaps one of the impulses in blogging is to avoid going quietly into that dark night but to rage against the passing of the light. And I can’t even find the book so the quote has lost the wonder of the original. original. Respect.
Sorry, found the poem. Of course.
Do not go gentle into that good night
Rage, rage against the passing of the light
BTW I’m not so utterly smitten by the poem as I was, but it’s still worth a quick google.