http://www.newsome.org/2006/08/noblesse-oblige-in-blogosphere/ Kent Newsome on technology, music and life Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.newsome.org/2006/08/noblesse-oblige-in-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-4466 Henry Hereford Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:04:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=3096#comment-4466 I don't read blogs and when I hear that someone I know is a blogger it just lowers him in my estimation. Blogs are just bloat in the Internet--the bloatosphere.Oh, how did I find you? I was searching 'noblesse oblige'. It's a nuisance when I click on a link to find it's just some riff-raff blogger. I don’t read blogs and when I hear that someone I know is a blogger it just lowers him in my estimation. Blogs are just bloat in the Internet–the bloatosphere.Oh, how did I find you? I was searching ‘noblesse oblige’. It’s a nuisance when I click on a link to find it’s just some riff-raff blogger.

]]> http://www.newsome.org/2006/08/noblesse-oblige-in-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-4467 DavidD Sun, 20 Aug 2006 00:49:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=3096#comment-4467 I considered commenting on Nick Carr's post, but did you see how many comments there were? I don't mind being the only one who appreciates something I write, but it's nice giving someone a shot to have a little dialogue instead of this all being exhibitionism.It could be that blogs are actually anti-democratic, proving how few people have anything worth saying, at least when you get past experiences on something else I know is real. Why should all these opinions matter again? Of course, I'm an elitist. I'd love to pull God or something like Him out from behind a post on occasion and settle for someone that they're wrong about something. Since I went online in 1998, my greatest lesson is how little common ground I have with people who think differently, even though I thought I had a lot and have no trouble being professional to anyone in real life."All for one and one for all" isn't democracy. It's love. It's meine Kameraden, which works better for me in German than just saying my comrades. There is a lot of bonding like that between like-minded people in the blogosphere, people with huge lists of links, where others say exactly the same things, slogans rather than looking at both sides, or have some non-political, non-religious interest that makes a group. But to find some connection otherwise is hard to do. I don't know that this is a good place if that's what someone wants. What one can have is anonymity, if one wants. I've liked how that makes me free to say anything and find out that people just aren't going to understand certain ideas I thought they might. One can also have the technology to keep a journal more orderly than I can on my own, with some mechanism for sharing, so I don't wind up rambling on e-mails or feel I have this unexpressed nugget of wisdom in my head. I can put it on my blog. There it's on its own. Everyone wants to make a difference. My experience is that no one does. Some people are in the right place at the right time with some talent to facilitate a phenomenon. It's impossible to set out to make that happen and expect succeess. One has to get whatever existential joy one can get out of the process, whether successful or not, or spend one's life being an unhappy overacheiver or underacheiver, depending on how lucky you are.Yes, trees make a sound even if no one hears them. That's a different subject, though. I considered commenting on Nick Carr’s post, but did you see how many comments there were? I don’t mind being the only one who appreciates something I write, but it’s nice giving someone a shot to have a little dialogue instead of this all being exhibitionism.It could be that blogs are actually anti-democratic, proving how few people have anything worth saying, at least when you get past experiences on something else I know is real. Why should all these opinions matter again? Of course, I’m an elitist. I’d love to pull God or something like Him out from behind a post on occasion and settle for someone that they’re wrong about something. Since I went online in 1998, my greatest lesson is how little common ground I have with people who think differently, even though I thought I had a lot and have no trouble being professional to anyone in real life.”All for one and one for all” isn’t democracy. It’s love. It’s meine Kameraden, which works better for me in German than just saying my comrades. There is a lot of bonding like that between like-minded people in the blogosphere, people with huge lists of links, where others say exactly the same things, slogans rather than looking at both sides, or have some non-political, non-religious interest that makes a group. But to find some connection otherwise is hard to do. I don’t know that this is a good place if that’s what someone wants. What one can have is anonymity, if one wants. I’ve liked how that makes me free to say anything and find out that people just aren’t going to understand certain ideas I thought they might. One can also have the technology to keep a journal more orderly than I can on my own, with some mechanism for sharing, so I don’t wind up rambling on e-mails or feel I have this unexpressed nugget of wisdom in my head. I can put it on my blog. There it’s on its own. Everyone wants to make a difference. My experience is that no one does. Some people are in the right place at the right time with some talent to facilitate a phenomenon. It’s impossible to set out to make that happen and expect succeess. One has to get whatever existential joy one can get out of the process, whether successful or not, or spend one’s life being an unhappy overacheiver or underacheiver, depending on how lucky you are.Yes, trees make a sound even if no one hears them. That’s a different subject, though.

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