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"The New Year is finally here, blog on"
01/06/2003 Entry
Six days into the year I feel like 2003 is finally taking off. Email traffic increased, blog traffic increased, and my list of things to do also increased manyfold today. People are finally back at home, back at work and back online. I suddenly have no idea how I'll keep up with all the blogs I've come across and begun to follow in the past few weeks.
But I know I will. Because frankly, it's the best way to find interesting material on the Web these days. Or why restrict it to the Web? It's not as though running around outside in the snow is going to point me to that much exciting information. I was sitting in a café today waiting for a friend and had not brought any reading with me. I looked around and found a few pages of the New York Times. I did end up finding an interesting piece but had my friend been just a few more minutes late I would've run out of reading material. Had I had my laptop with me (well, my laptop before the unfortunate incident at the Atlanta airport) I would have been all set. But that's not simply because the Web has so much content that you are bound to find something of interest. It's more because I have now found a few trusted blogs that I know will offer good reading material and will point me to sites worth a look.
So yeah-yeah, maybe bloggers do talk about themselves a lot - as some critics have argued although I can't find any references right now - but maybe there is a reason for that: some bloggers manage to talk about themselves and others in the context of more generally relevant - politically relevant, socially relevant, culturally relevant - discussions. And by linking to each other we create intriguing networks of ideas. So here is to the bloggers whose writing I read and to those who stop by here and make this that much more fun!
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