Comments on: Griping About Blog Storms

By: Bogi Antal

Bogi Antal — Wed, 03 May 2006 20:17:35 +0000

just thought i would point out that Numa Numa is NOT a hungarian
song but it is acctually Romanian..soo if ur going to poke fun
atleast do it to the right culture.

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By: faithCommons

faithCommons — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:44:18 +0000

Let’s Get Jesus Back
There is increasing discussion among progressive and liberal writers and bloggers to take religion, specifically Christianity, back from the conservatives or Christian Right, as they’re often called. Bob, over at

By: someone

someone — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:34:08 +0000

(Of course, visitors looking for a link to the video won’t bother reading through all this text. But I’m not bitter. Really.)

Yes I did.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 02:20:20 +0000

Osama -

Thanks for the info and commentary. The good thing about the blogosphere is that it can’t be controlled by a small number of media companies, and I don’t see that changing. We can only hope that enough people will continue to exercise their brains by exploring the blogs instead of (or in addition to) partaking in the dumb and vulgar.

By: Osama_Been_Forgotten

Osama_Been_Forgotten — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:42:14 +0000

It’s called the “slashdot-effect”. It’s been a well-known phenomenon for nigh-on 7 years now, but the angle that’s new, is that about 5 years ago, webhosters started charging extra for bandwidth, which is what ended up causing sites to shut down. This aspect really only started to come to light when the blogging phenomenon started to really take off about two years ago. The phenomenon is a result of human nature. The technology (both the nuts-and-bolts aspect, and the webhosting/blogger contracts) simply hasn’t caught up with the realities of the business.

I suspect that things like bit-torrent are the first generation of nuts-and-bolts ways of approaching this problem. Some kind of distributed hosting technology may ultimately be the technical answer. At least until the lawyers and bean-counters catch on, and start offering more flexible agreements that can handle the whole “15-minutes of Internet fame” thing.

As far as the “vulgar and dumb” aspect goes; Steve Jobs, when commenting on media convergence, said that “people watch TV to turn their brains off. people get onto the internet to turn their brains on.” – He said this BEFORE the iPod. I think he realizes the mistake now. SOME people connect to the internet to turn their brains on. But sometimes they want to turn their brains off – so why should they have to buy a separate piece of hardware, or get up and sit in a different room, when a single piece of hardware can do both?
The only thing holding back media convergence (TV on the Internet) is the technology. It’s nearly here now. When we can distribute and watch HD video via our computers as easily as we presently can with MP3s, convergence will hit us all, hard and fast. The emergence of DVI as the standard video connector for both computers and HDTV is the sign that it’s coming. Will the Internet devolve into the wasteland that is currently Cable TV? I don’t know. I guess it depends on the amount of control the big media companies can gain in Internet distribution. It’s well known that Vulgar and Dumb is profitable.

By: mick in the uk

mick in the uk — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:37:07 +0000

Couldn’t be bothered reading your post.
Where’s the video.

Just kidding.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 00:49:37 +0000

Nick – glad to hear things are looking up.

By: PajamaHadin

PajamaHadin — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 23:05:51 +0000

Griping About Blog Storms
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