Comments on: Rant: If you have anything worthwhile to say, then reaching out to other bloggers is a waste of time

By: Rachel M.

Rachel M. — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:05:26 +0000

“Twitter is the web in micro…” I like that, I’d never thought about it that way. Thanks!

By: amanda

amanda — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:37:05 +0000

Just agreeing with the two before me. “People” (and this is people on and off line) don’t really want a new perspective or to be educated. They want to spout their views and win arguments. It’s a weird phenomenon to me, but I’m too lazy to guess at its cause or solution.

And that is another factor. Laziness. Sometimes the thing to complain about is laziness instead of ungratefulness/pettiness. My self-centeredness is most shown in my stinginess with time. If I have (or just feel I have) very little of it, I’ll spend it on myself, doing things that benefit me. It really isn’t a reflection of how much I care about others…

By: thag

thag — Sun, 31 May 2009 22:27:28 +0000

I’d have to agree with Josh and also say that these are symptoms of something larger than the internet. If you want to get truly educated on just how bad this is, better than looking at blogs might be reading the comments of prominent writers (ie, what are people saying about David Brooks’ latest work?). What is really sad – and this is for real – is that even those comments making the NYT editor’s choice cut, and those comments most ‘recommended’ by other readers, are sometimes naive at best – dangerous at worst.

How this problem would get fixed seems to begin, of course, outside the internet: I can only hope that what I see online doesn’t reflect reality, at least not all of the time. People say print journalism is threatened by easy access online news, but that is just the tip of the iceberg, for much more is at stake.

By: Joshua Rocks

Joshua Rocks — Sun, 31 May 2009 15:14:04 +0000

You expect way too much from the internet. All that the internet has done is magnified the petty and vile nature of our modern civil society. There isn’t what you seek in the “real” world, why expect it in a world that allows any one a chance to say anything? The internet, and all it’s socializing effects, are mirrors reflecting back what the user wants – people want their ideas parroted back to them and are not online for any thing resembling a unique and new idea (present company and the majority or readers here excluded of course).

By: John

John — Sun, 31 May 2009 02:30:48 +0000

I could believe that the median blog has little to say. But hardly anyone reads the median blog, either.

By: Amy

Amy — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:58:17 +0000

I enjoy reading your blog, wish I had time to read it more. I hope you continue because you’re great at it. If you ever want me to link to a post, DM me a link. @amyherndon