Blog directories such as Blogcritics and Technorati, Bloglines, Twingly, BlogFlux, FeedBlitz,ASK, Blogdex, Memorandum, Google Blog Search, Blogniscient and Tailrank, act as filters and can be a great vehicle for accessing pertinent blogs, bringing you some of the best of the blogging world, with commentary by great writers. On the converse, there are also services such as Ping-O-Matic and CoComment, MyBlogLog, blogcatalog and badrss to help get your comments out into the blogosphere and noticed.
Cultural Change and Us
The GlobalIssues blog reports to us about overpopulation issues - that we spent thousands of years exploring, migrating, and developing civilization on planet Earth, and now destroying the land upon which we live. They suggest that wars of the future will be fought over natural resources, and the question is, “Is this because of over-population or a product of how we live?”
In poorer countries there is far less impact by large populations than there is in countries where we overproduce, consume, and waste resources. They suggest change must happen if there is to be a viable future for humanity, and intelligent debate may need to be around international trade, economic policies, and how we use land and resources.
The ancient Chinese had a saying: May you live in interesting times - understood to mean: “May you live in times of great change, because they are interesting and challenging”. We are setting the stage today for our emerging future, and that of our children, grandchildren, and generations to come. What we do with our own lives, how we live, how we express, create, and communicate will shape the emergence of that future.
It’s a great time to be blogging - the vehicle of the moment to share our thoughts, opinions, attitudes, intentions, passions, suggestions, encouragement, inspiration, and discussion. It’s a great time to absorb, entertain, notice, and reply to the communication of other bloggers.
See you in the blogosphere!
Article comments
1 - writerkols
Long post but great one. Blogging is indeed the best way to rise social awareness. Numerous bloggers are doing it online.
Blogging has indeed become a way of life with many. It paves way for expression and reflection of self. And if you/your thoughts vibe with others, a community is created and sharing becomes indispensable in such a network. Once your community grows, new thoughts, more vibrancy and real change begins to happen.
2 - Eric Olsen
very nice indeed Cary, thanks!
3 - Duane Barlow
Excellent article!
4 - Ginae B. McDonald
Very nice! I find blogging to be MY most effective medium.
5 - Mongo
I think it would be interesting to also talk about how Twitter is changing the Blogosphere. While a lot of people used to blog "I just went to Taco Bell", now they're more apt to Tweet it. I think overall Twitter's making content in the Blogosphere more valuable by cannibalizing many of the would-have-been-inane blog posts.
6 - The Recipe
To expand on Mongo's point, another bit of technology that has drastically changed our daily life is starting to feed into the blogosphere growth - mobile phones. The best ones these days have internet connectivity and apps to facilitate things like tweeting, facebook updates and now even blogging. Anyone with an iPhone may have seen the wordpress app. Blog from anywhere, anytime using a device you're likely to have with you at all times. The possibilities...