Musings at experts-exchange

Interesting piece of reading in their occasional newsletter. I have recently joined them, although they have been around a long time and I used to be with them before as well, when I was dealing a lot with MS Exhange 5 and 5.5 in what feels now like a previous existence

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But that's what the Internet has done, although there's no question that the money and exposure of television set the table. Forget all the angst about "Web 2.0" -- mass communication changed fifty years ago, when a lot of newspapers switched to offset printing. Bigger newspapers had an expensive piece of equipment on which they wanted a return on investment (a press), and smaller newspapers couldn't justify the expense of equipment that ran for only a few hours a week -- and all of a sudden, anyone with a carbon ribbon typewriter and a camera could start his own paper.

The Internet has taken it one step further. Anyone can have a website, anyone can set up a blog, and anyone can have his say. What we fear, though, is that if everyone is talking, it means that no one is listening. Freedom of speech -- the right to say what you want about your political beliefs, or about your religious beliefs -- is not the same as the right to be heard, and it certainly doesn't mean that you have anything valuable to say. "Everybody's talkin' at me," Fred Neil wrote, "I don't hear a word they're saying."
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From Ericpete check out his info on experts-exchange. Useful site if you are willing to spend time to help out other people with their IT problems and get some kudos in the process

This post ties up a bit with my other post about blogs and the spoken word. A Blog is a written form of spoken words. Hence no one is listening as we are all too busy writing our own junk, and not thinking about what we are writing. Does it matter, is it of any use? Just like this post really… 

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