Wow that was easy, it's a wonder everyone is not doing it, hang on everyone is. Who would have thought that almost everyone in the world has lots of interesting thoughts to add to the pool of data on the Internet. Is it just remotely possible that with every passing day, millions of people blogging random thoughts and opinions may be degrading the massive and unreliable body of 'information' that is accessed via the Internet even more.
Won't this post just make it that little bit harder to distinguish between useful information and random opinion? Am I making it harder for everyone to find anything? What if there are a million people like me adding a million posts as we speak? Does that make the internet better as an information source or worse? Is stream of consiousness opinion valuable to anyone, to many people?
Is everyones and anyones opinion on anything equally valid, equally well thought out, well researched, trustworthy?
No doubt blogging is a goldfield for sociologists, a vast number of people telling the world just what they think from the isolation of a keyboard. Not sure if it greatly enhances the research options of anyone else.
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No question about it - zillions of terabytes of random, stream-of-consciousness opinion etc is not valuable to most people.
But it is valuable to the machine, and that's why the product is 'free.'
This is how it learns about us. Not only blogs, but email, docs & spreadsheets, YouTube, etc. It's not called Google for no reason.
So get with the program... assimilate... "resistance is futile" Bwa ha ha ha ha!!!!
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