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Sunday, March 2, 2003

Why to blog, or not to blog -- Comment()
Yesterday I answered a questionnaire on weblogs, sent by a student doing a master's thesis on journalism. The questionnaire was rather well thought out, not too long and mostly relevant. One of the questions was "Why do you keep a weblog?" A tough question to answer. The weblogging advice by Mike Sanders gives five different reasons, of which "pleasure of meaning" and "pleasure of creating" are closest to my thinking. However, I didn't give this answer, but instead wrote "Finding new thoughts and connections". Perhaps that was also a good enough answer. In any case, I haven't yet found any sufficiently good reasons to stop blogging.

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Tara Sue: "Once you realize you're just a human nutcase, life is golden." [Scripting News]

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Logical Fallacies and The Rush To War: "Dave Koehler of PhillyBurbs.com has written an outstanding summary of the logical fallacies used by the Bush administration to try to convince the world at large of the necessity of invading Iraq in the absence of any sort of compelling evidence. If you think Bush is full of it, but couldn't put your finger on how, exactly, read the article. If you think Bush is making a good case for invading Iraq, read the article anyway." [kuro5hin.org]

Where is the originality in weblogs? -- Comment()
Michael Koch writes: "My main criticism of weblogs at the moment is that there are so few webloggers who actually have to say something. I want to read weblogs from people talking about the fields in which they are working. I want to listen to insiders, who are able to communicate their knowledge intelligibly and who, due to their extensive knowledge, can evaluate the current situation differently than the average layman." [Monoklon > The Aardvark Speaks]