Symposium 6

The questions posed in Symposium 6 were:

 

  • Can technology progress independently of art and culture?
  • What is the untapped potential of hypertext?  Will we ever be satisfied with it?
  • Have internet users lost a sense of privacy?  Is blogging a form of narcissism?

 

I want to focus on the last dot point. In particularly on the question Is blogging a form of narcissism? My instant response is YES. Of course it is, no offense to any regular blog contributors (I think blogging is a positive thing to do) but the majority of posts have so much worthless nonsense that is only said or shown by bloggers to feed their egos! A lot of blog posts are just about as academic as bloody Facebook posts. I’m all for blogging about ideas and thoughts that readers can think deeply about, but please, no frills.

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