Are Blogging and Unemployment Related?

Posted by chrisd on Saturday December 21, 2002 @01:58PM from the bloggers-blogging-about-bloggers-blogging dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "The Washington Post is really nice with bloggers. Yesterday, it carried an article named "Free Speech -- Virtually," or "Legal Constraints on Web Journals Surprise Many 'Bloggers'". Today, Cynthia L. Webb focuses on an hypothesis from Chris Gulker, which he exposed in a column published by The Independent, "The View from Silicon Valley: Bloggers come in from the cold." As said Chris Gulker, "Many of us are Webloggers 'bloggers' for short. It would be interesting to see if there's a correlation between the meteoric rise of blogging, the practice of keeping a frequently-updated online journal, and the rise of unemployment in Silicon Valley and other tech corridors. Check this column for a summary or the original article for more details."

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Re:It'd be interesting to see... by aerojad · 2002-12-21 14:05 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Well of course. If you blame the ecomomy then eventually you would have to blame the governent, and in this world we just can't do that. So yes, bloggers are the root of all joblessness in the world, because it just makes sence!

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Re:It's the fault of the mainstream media by j3ss · 2002-12-21 17:02 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I agree that mainstream media has in many ways conquered much of the web (not all of it) but I think that to say that blogging is some kind of a reaction to this is just plain wrong.

The vast majority of blogs that I have read are completely banal and insipid. They may not be funded by MTV or Warner Bros but they share the same kind of empty headed mundanity so well epitomized by the kind of sugar coated garbage seen on MTV. It's the Triumph of the Swill.