We live in a time where people keep going on about how there are a zillion blogs and still ten new ones are made every millionth of a second. This is often trumpeted out as being a “Good Thing” and a sign about how people are getting the chance to speak. It kind of sounds like blogs give a voice to the “Little Guy.”<\/p>\n

Most new blogs, unless they are sponsored by a large corporation or are the product of some “famous” person (this includes well known geeks by the way), vanish into the swamp that is the blogosphere.<\/p>\n

Far from your blog being the chance for you to set the world right, 99.9% of the time it will just be somewhere for you to while away time while getting things off your chest (like this one).<\/p>\n

There is some advantage to this in that it keeps a record of what you thought in the past when you get old, cranky and want to reminisce, but the blog is not<\/strong> a force for democracy.<\/p>\n

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