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Lately I've become burnt out on the whole blogging thing, as the infrequency of posts here might suggest. I've wasn't quite able to articulate this disenchantment, until I saw yesterday's Pearls Before Swine comic strip. Dave Barry once suggested "the Information Superhighway was essentially CB radio, but with more typing," which may not be the case, but blogging might be AM talk radio with, well, more typing.
Part of the reason I've been interested in blogging is can allow people with unique voices to share their opinions and recontextualize mass media products, but it seems like blogging tends to attract the self-important smugsters who rarely generate their own perspectives on the world, but express opinions for the sake of group identification. Or people that seem to be intent on expressing class privilege with their digital cameras and their discussions of organizational dynamics studies.
I'm not sure if I have a point - yet - but I'm certainly starting to doubt whether blogs are democratic or even interesting.