Comments on: Is blogging killing communication?

By: Carter

Carter — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:42:57 +0000

Be ready when opportunity comes…Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

By: Doug Whitson

Doug Whitson — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:14:53 +0000

You are ruining everything. This will be the end of blogging.

No really, I like the thought.

I have often wondered “When does the information age end, and the age of I don’t give a shit start!

By: RCB Bookmarks, Mid-January, 2009

RCB Bookmarks, Mid-January, 2009 — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:10:45 +0000

[...] Is blogging killing communication? » Principled Discovery – Maybe it is the nature of the blog and the internet. A million voices are shouting through the noise and the easiest way to attract a following is to market outrage. The e-newsletters I receive never merely outline an issue, provide some background and offer suggestions for organizing against an action. Mixed in with this purported goal of the newsletter are hyperbolic statements about the end of America. The end of homeschooling. The end of the family. The end of worker’s rights… Everything is sensationalized. There is never a middle ground. There is always a call to arms. [...]

By: Real Words at the Blog Carnival | Real Words

Real Words at the Blog Carnival | Real Words — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:01:53 +0000

[...] were, not surprisingly, the posts about writing. These included thoughts on journal writing and blogging, tips on how to write a short story, a review of a short story collection by Miranda July, and [...]

By: Real Words at the Blog Carnival | Real Words

Real Words at the Blog Carnival | Real Words — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:01:53 +0000

By: Ben Franklin: Father of Blogging « Cocking A Snook!

Ben Franklin: Father of Blogging « Cocking A Snook! — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:31:25 +0000

[...] Franklin: Father of Blogging 19 01 2009 Dana has been blogging about blogging, wondering if it kills communication, worrying that it seems by its very structure to exaggerate [...]

By: JJ Ross

JJ Ross — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:08:42 +0000

True, and hmmm, I seem to remember Monsieur Jefferson quite slyly and effectively using sock and meat puppet plants in the newspapers to his own political advantage, against adversaries including his own sitting president, John Adams, WHILE SERVING as his vice-president! Hardly ethical by my lights, and enough to make Jefferson hypocritical if complaining about how HE was being treated in the press. . .very American indeed.

By: Dana Hanley

Dana Hanley — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:40:13 +0000

Oh yes. The old philosophical societies and other debate type clubs organized back then would likely have a lot of similarities to blogging…except that it was more face to face which I think can both flare tempers more and also help to regulate some of it.

Those are the some of the things I come back to when we criticize papers today. While Jefferson argued that a free press was vital to our freedom, he had no kind words for newspapers. Of course, he was being dragged through the coals by papers of the day, but our animosity for those who control the news we hear has a long history.

It is as American as apple pie.

By: JJ Ross

JJ Ross — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:33:03 +0000

Sorry, the “correct” name was not Junta but Junto — even though that was an error of gender.

By: JJ Ross

JJ Ross — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:29:15 +0000

This morning I was re-reading Daniel Pink’s “Free Agent Nation” ideas about homeschooling and self-learning, and I came across Benjamin Franklin’s mutual learning society, his Junta. DH and I both noticed how much it sounds like what blogging can offer today, at least when it’s done in the right spirit, of “inquiry after truth” while “preventing warmth!” Seems our blog issues about how to stay reasonable and civil, and look for higher agreements rather than lower disputes, aren’t new at ALL!

The Junto was a club established in 1727 by Benjamin Franklin for mutual improvement in Philadelphia. Also known as the Leather Apron Club, its purpose was to debate questions of morals, politics, and natural philosophy. . .

Franklin in his autobiography: “The rules that I drew up required that every member, in his turn, should produce one or more queries on any point of Morals, Politics, or Natural Philosophy, to be discuss’d by the company; and once in three months produce and read an essay of his own writing, on any subject he pleased.

Our debates were to be under the direction of a president, and to be conducted in the sincere spirit of inquiry after truth, without fondness for dispute or desire of victory — and to prevent warmth, all expressions of positiveness in opinions, or direct contradiction, were after some time made contraband, and prohibited under small pecuniary penalties.