I am somewhat puzzled by all the carping going on about this blog. Some nut pokes fun of it and others insist on dictating the content of it. Why is that?
Do these people understand what a blog is? Where these things came from?
Wikipedia has one answer, perhaps two, and I feel both are wrong. The format we now know as blogs were actually products of three extranets: America on Line. Prodigy, and Compuserve.
Back in the mid to late '80s the only way to have an on line experience with large numbers of people was through joining large extranets such as the three mentioned above. You were not on the internet per say, but on a vary large extranet. You were confined to the content that each service offered. You also could not interact between the services except by a method some used to call duplexing. This was a means where someone would have a subscription with one or more of these extranets and communicate between them. One of the ways this was done was through something called a Weblog.
Someone would post a diary of sorts, or even notes for friends when they would check in on their diary.
The owners of the extranets saw this activity and soon began to offer subscribers their own personal "webpage" where they could post their "diaries" as well as have additional content, restricted, however, by the technology of the day.
When public access to the internet became widespread, more and more content providers appeared and the power of the "big three" soon faded.
The current "blog" format soon appeared. They started out and for the most part, remain as sort of an on line diary or journal.
The commercial and media interests soon took this format over. More and more of these blogs have taken on the look of newspapers than that of the personal journals that were their origin.
Now that brings us back to THIS blog. To an extent, I suppose it could be looked at all of the above.
That is beside the point, however. This blog is one of millions upon millions of them all over the internet. The topics covered vary from the mundane to the important matters of the day.
I consider this blog one of the mundane ones. Yet, as unimportant and mundane as it is, certain "people" seem hell bent on stopping me from writing it or at least DEMANDING that I change what I write about.
I started out covering current events mainly the plight of missing children. They DEMANDED I STOP doing that and have done everything in their power to PREVENT me of doing any of that.
Now, I do not even have the right to tell my side of the story HERE and ONLY here. I do not have youtube sites regarding this subject. I do not have Flicker sites with an archive of information on this subject. I do not have any secret or private sites where I have gathered information. All I have is this mundane little blog and yet I get criticized for that little bit.
Something is vary wrong and one sided about this. Someone wants me silenced and it has nothing to do with "creating drama."
If you were so concerned about "the drama" then you would not create that drama yourself with all the blogs, youtube, blogtv and similar sites out there.
If this blog were to stand alone with none of that other content, nobody would know or care about it.
By having all that content out there, readers and viewers are COMPELLED to come here and see what all the fuss is about.
It is therefore not ME that is creating the drama it is YOU OUT THERE. If you want me to stop, YOU STOP. Remove all the material that draws people to this blog it would fade away into being read by only a few people and not the masses out there wanting to know why all the smear sites.
It is not me that created the drama it is YOU!!
MURT
