Back and Blogging
Back on the blog, holidays and co-workers finished interfering with the my occasional offering. All blame aside, I’ve noticed at their most basic level blogs are beasts that need to be fed.
I thought Kathleen Parker had an interesting take on the blogosphere in a piece last week in Thursday’s print edition. She wondered about the sheer volume and spotty veracity blogs have to offer. According to Parker, the great democratic cyberleveler apparently comes with conditions and no warranty.
I had those same concerns when blogs exploded a few years — about the time Parker professed their goodness as Dan Rather was being outed.
But as Parker noted, many in the B-sphere do not do any actual reporting or research. Instead they rely on each other or the dreaded mainstream media, the same MSM they are trying to supplant for information.
Go figure.
Anyway, it was a good column and not simply because I agreed. Her insight about accountability and oversight was on the money … in my humble, now-blogging opinion.
Not that I came kicking and screaming into this. Instead, blogging — which I’ve done from the State High School Basketball Tournaments for four years — was the natural course for smaller observations or … don’t laugh … even a thought or two.