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Why does it matter? Other people enjoy reading it too, apparently. If you don't want to read it, don't read it.
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"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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If we adopted that perspective for life, FOX threads would vanish from the OT! Que catastrophe!Comment
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Good call.Originally posted by Verto
Make sure it's a MAGNETIC fire.
It matters because it is a noxious plague. Even semi-reputable news sources are talking about getting their info from blogs, which is about as reliable as asking a shopping-cart bum about the future of steel tariffs. I don't have a problem with whiny little b*tches with LiveJournals, I have a problem when people start taking said b*tches seriously.Originally posted by Asher
Why does it matter?Lime roots and treachery!
"Eventually you're left with a bunch of unmemorable posters like Cyclotron, pretending that they actually know anything about who they're debating pointless crap with." - Drake TungstenComment
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If "semi-reputable" news sources use blogs as sources, they're obviously not very reputable and you need to be more discerning of reputable sources instead of whining about blogs."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "Comment
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Semi-reputable > Not reputable at allOriginally posted by Asher
If "semi-reputable" news sources use blogs as sources, they're obviously not very reputable and you need to be more discerning of reputable sources instead of whining about blogs.
And I like whining about blogs, thank you very much - though I suppose if anyone would know about whining, it's the blog community.Lime roots and treachery!
"Eventually you're left with a bunch of unmemorable posters like Cyclotron, pretending that they actually know anything about who they're debating pointless crap with." - Drake TungstenComment
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From what I've seen this isn't much different from a web log, but more dynamic with more people."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "Comment
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Sure, for some. I, for one, don't post look-at-me threads.Lime roots and treachery!
"Eventually you're left with a bunch of unmemorable posters like Cyclotron, pretending that they actually know anything about who they're debating pointless crap with." - Drake TungstenComment
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w3rdOriginally posted by Verto
People need to realize that no one wants to read about their ****ty life. Then these blogs will disappear.
"The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de BottonComment
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There are plenty "serious blogs" that aren't about the author. Some are hard to distinguish from a well updated web page. For example Gene Expression at www.gnxp.com is written by multiple authors, pretty focused and only rarely personal (I have yet to see it, but I am not a regular reader).
I don't read any blog regularly these days, I've subscribed to a couple RSS feeds from blogs and I check sporadically for interesting topics.Comment
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I don't read blogs myself but if someone wants to put one up or read one I won't lose any sleep over it. The net is a big place and people can do what they want.Which side are we on? We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We are evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go. I'm surprised you didn't know that. --Saul TighComment
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The same thing could be said about booksI've heard thatsome surveys show that there are more people who write blogs than people who read them. Go figure.
Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy – LessingComment
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headheeb.blogmosis.com
Great source for obscure international news that you're not going to find just about anywhere else. Excellent analysis too...Stop Quoting BenComment
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The 2 blogs I read:
http://www.waiterrant.net/ - Observations from a waiter
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/ - A Microsoft guy blogging about programming and stuff. But I mostly ignore that part. His posts that don't involve code are much more fun/interesting.Comment
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Hardly. Even today it is complicated to publish a book, and you need quite some money to do it, they get edited and so on. Unlike bklogs, not everyone can do it.Originally posted by nostromo
The same thing could be said about books
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some oxford poly sci grads, middle of the road.
Strong leaning toward democracy promotion.
Focus on WOT, strongly antitorture, intermediate on the neocon to "realist" scale.
Moderate. Well, d'uh.
Everyones favorite Thatcherite anti-torture, anti-Bush, pro-Israel, homosexual and gay marriage advocate
Similar to Oxblog, though these guys were generally opposed to the Iraq war on semi-realist grounds.Last edited by lord of the mark; November 1, 2005, 17:34."A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.” Martin BuberComment
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