The person who says, “There is no blogosphere. There is only the people in it,” is obviously a moron.
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Chris Abraham
Because the Medium is the Message
The person who says, “There is no blogosphere. There is only the people in it,” is obviously a moron.
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And the person who argues this way clearly is not interested in having an intelligent conversation. Is this what you teach in your seminars?
Jeff,
In my seminars I say that you can be playful and you should be stuffy and you should have fun and be sensational and be provocative and a lot rhetorical and attention-getting. I guess I walk my talk. But, I did exhibit poor form!
You’re right. Poor form. I am going to expand upon my argument. Thank you for not lowering yourself to my level. It was late and I was tired. And you’re not a moron. And if I thought the what you said was moronic, it was only downstream. I think that the Buzz Machine is an amazing organ.
Anyway, I do teach folks to be rhetorical and sensational sometimes, and to have fun. And that is indeed what I was doing when I called the comment moronic.
I was having fun, and I hope you can have fun along with me. Maybe someone will read this post and link through and see why I am the moron for saying so.
Chris
I really didn’t meant to call you a moron but then again the name of my blog is Because the Medium is the Message and it was late last night when I read it.
I constantly tell my students that they are way way way more than just their personal voice. Yes, there are two distinct levels: individual (blogger) and cultural (blogosphere). And each blogger is for sure a person and for sure has her own words and her own personality. But you’re doing bloggers — especially the neophyte — a disservice when you suggest that they’re not a medium.
The blogosphere is a medium — a very powerful tsunami of individual voices (individual ants) that in unintended consequence have created an emergent pattern, an emergent voice — the passion chamber, if you get my drift from Naken Conversations — that is “a mass, not a monolith, not even a medium.”
You can call an AP stringer just a person, a voice. But, if thst stringer is picked up and repeated and replicated (and we all know that there is zero discernment between AP stories and NYTimes stories, sadly) then that single voice can simple change brand and cultural perception.
The single voice is not alone. That single voice is Kosmos.