Tuesday, March 9, 2010

And now for another self-reflexive post. I don't know exactly what people want to hear about. All I know is that I just saw most recent House episode and the patient in it was a blogger. She blogged about her life, and the issue of privacy was somewhat dealt with, though inconclusively. I would argue, from a brief--and I emphasize brief--survey of the "blogosphere"(thought I resent using that term) it seems that people don't care--as they seem to on the show--for the printed(if you can call it printed in this digital age) word. Whatever, I think my main takeaway is that I will, like her, retreat into cyberspace, away from the loneliness that plagues me.

Monday, February 22, 2010

The more I look at my previous posts the more ridiculous I realize they are. Though I can remove them I'd rather keep them up as a reminder of my own stupidity, which is something I always find worthwhile to remind myself of. Anyway, since I'm never sure what you're supposed to write in these 'blog' things, I'm just going to write whatever I want, which is what I expect everyone does anyway. But I am especially confused by the purpose of blogs, if there is one. On the one hand, they are just websites, personal websites, nothing new there. Maybe the allure is in that they are free. I don't know, it's possible. The more plausible explanation is that companies like blogger.com get are able to make money the more people are on their websites, even if they are "personal" websites. That being said this is a pretty simplistic explanation, though capitalistic ones such as this are usually pretty apt. Whatever, who really cares.