I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.
Personally I find the democratic chaos of the Internet fascinating, and for the most part really benign.
Everyone should have a blog. It's the most democratic thing ever.
Part of the mystique of blogs is their protean quality: They work both sides of the divide between politics and media, further blurring the already fuzzy distinctions between reporter, pundit, political operative, activist, and citizen.
I love the idea of a website/blog being a catalyst for propelling people out into the world, and I enjoy it most when people write me to say that their world looked or smelled or felt a little different because of something that I wrote.
The danger of the blogosphere is reading only those you agree with. While there are right-wing blogs that are entertaining freak shows, it's hard to find substantial journalism there.
What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
The constellation of opinion called the blogosphere consists, like the stars themselves, partly of gases. This is what makes blogs addictive - that is, both pleasurable and destructive: They're so easy to consume and so endlessly available.
While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses.
I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling.