Just when you think - Whats the point??!! - someone steps in and says "Read your blog. Loved it. Some issues on there. Made me think."
Isn't that where we're all going with this? Isn't it like the scene in that movie Bruce Almighty where Jim Carrey gets to be God, and has to listen to everyone's prayers (via email). You can read 20 blogs in under ten minutes - and every one has a prayer or a wish or a thought process outlined in it. You can perceive lifestyle choices, faiths, politics (duh, obviously) loves, loss and heartache... and the humanity of it strikes you, whether the blog is from Aarhus or Zimbabwe.
Of course, publishers wanna publish it - in them old fashioned bindings of paper and string, because there's a world of people immune to blogging who yet wanna know about it. But it's a vast human experiment - greater than reality tv, more open to measurement than the impact of the internet, more poignant than hacking email - because these sites are the sneak peek into your hallway that voyeurs treasure, and the rest of us claim as intellectual stimulus when in truth its more about soap opera...
The globe is changing - so fast we can't measure it or keep up. Climate, war zones, extinction of key species, barriers of geography and language are dwindling, people are getting a global consciousness. There is talk of a 'critical mass' - a point at which humans could truly learn from their mistakes. Is it round the corner? Check out some more blogs, and let me know...
