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Fuzziness in the net
I find it strange how everything these days, from mobiles to web sites can't just do the one thing and do it well, they have to have extras to fight off the opposition, and this leads inevitably into things morphing into something else. Not content to just be mobile phones, they are now digital cameras, video cameras, internet browsers, mobile email readers, satnavs and probabably one is about to be released which microwaves a lunch snack. So also with web sites; social networking proved so popular and made the originators so much money that there's been a scramble every since to grab some of the action. Search engines are becoming social networking sites as well, linking sites are including social networking aspects, blogging has become the one thing that defines a lot of people and friends all have a to have a blog or they'd be out in the cold. The fact that these 'blogs' are eye candy with no content may say something about the democratisation of the web, or just about that individual's lack of creativity or need to communicate, but somewhere along the line the whole idea of blogging seems to have become fuzzy and describes on the one side political blogs and writer blogs, individualist blogs, business blogs which aren't really blogs but an extension of the marketing department, and teen blogs as described above. In fact the widget seems to have become the new obsession in certain quarters, you just gotta have all the widgets on your blog or you just ain't equipped! What most seem to promise is instant feeds between sites, ok, but what do you do with this instant information? The answer seems to be not very much. Just having the capacity to use it, having the widgets is satisfying enough. I just got an email informing me a brand new widget had been created at blogcatalog, and how everybody was really excited about it. A bit like any hobbyists excitement at some new 'thing' of their esoteric minority interest. So everything is merging because nothing has any defined edges; social networking, forums, blogs, blog networks, search engines with blogs and forums trying to steal a march on Google, but of course they are way behind. I think I preferred it when a blog was precisely that, a web log, or journal. It still is for many, but you have to wade through a lot of eye candy smothered in widgets all blinking away and using up bandwidth to the extent that some can take several minutes to load. All of them are now becoming obsessed with making money online, few will manage it but they will provide the means for others to make a pile out of their dreams. But at least among the jetsam and flotsam some beautiful sites glide out of the mist, magnificent inventions of their creator's very individual take on life, jewels in a desert they may be but they make it all worthwhile.
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A blog about the state of the world
www.oneworldnet.co.uk/blog/index.php
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