ItÂ’s official blogs have graduated from the interesting oddity of the day to a real threat to established power. The first indication is
has started a blog. Now Forbes Magazine has taken notice. Yes blogger power is uncontrolled, untamed. No matter left or right ordinary people are not supposed to be able to speak. It bucks the system and the system wants control.
Below I will list my qualifications to post here. If you are not taking part in the greatest revolution in speech since the US constitution, better get with it. The powers that be donÂ’t like it. It will not be Denny they will want to silence.
1 : username.
2 : password.
3 : balls.
1
Forbes can sniff filthys jock.
Posted by: Filthy Allah at October 28, 2005 10:54 AM (5ceWd)
2
real balls not required. Only metaphorical ones.
Posted by: caltechgirl at October 28, 2005 11:03 AM (2i1hl)
3
Yes yes that's what I meant.
Posted by: Howie at October 28, 2005 11:09 AM (D3+20)
4
I knew before opening the comments on this post that Howie was going to get chastised for number 3.
Posted by: Matt at October 28, 2005 11:12 AM (3TuFG)
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Very funny, Howie. I think the three qualifications for blogging will be referred to often around here.
Posted by: See-Dubya at October 28, 2005 11:48 AM (ElgOt)
6
it is a revolution in speech, thats very true. its also a revolution in community and provides and remedy for the atomization of society.
and all it takes is the big three components of blogging
Posted by: Jane at October 28, 2005 12:01 PM (M7kiy)
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Don't forget electricity and some sort of computer type device. That's about it. Yep.
Posted by: Impatient Girl at October 28, 2005 12:48 PM (ftixA)
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And grammar. Dude, I hate bad grammar.
Posted by: Oyster at October 28, 2005 01:06 PM (fl6E1)
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Well it would be more dangerous if we lived in a democracy, but fortunately we live in a republic.
Posted by: john Ryan at October 28, 2005 02:39 PM (ads7K)
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Damn right it's dangerous. Dangerous to the status quo. Dangerous to the mainstream media. Dangerous to the people who want to control every tiny little thing, like freedom of speech, for example. FOAD Forbes(sorry for the inappropriate language, but nothing else seemed to fit).
Posted by: jesusland joe at October 28, 2005 03:17 PM (rUyw4)
Posted by: slickdpdx at October 28, 2005 03:33 PM (MjGRu)
Posted by: Oyster at October 28, 2005 04:16 PM (fl6E1)
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FOAD = Fuck Off And Die.
Don't look at me that way, we're all adults here. Except for Filthy.
Posted by: Vinnie at October 28, 2005 04:19 PM (Kr6/f)
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Blogging is what the internet ought to be about. it's a lot less dangerous that the favourite passtime of the internet browsers: pornography.
it brings real free speach around the whole world & allows people to hear different opinions/ideas that they would never come across otherwise.
there is nothing they can do about it (other than route all access through state servers as in N. Korea/China - and even that is regularly broken), so screw them.
Posted by: Mrs Aginoth at October 28, 2005 04:41 PM (cZrVc)
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True Mrs. A., but without porn, we'd all still be using AOL on 14.4 dialup modems. Games have always driven computer hardware development, and porn drove website development. In any event, porn is still not as dangerous as Everquest.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at October 28, 2005 05:36 PM (0yYS2)
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Of course, number 3 isn't even required metaphorically. Simply make your public id not related to your actual self, and don't blog about personal stuff or your job.
Posted by: Jeff Medcalf at October 28, 2005 06:02 PM (eer2X)
Posted by: Oyster at October 28, 2005 08:37 PM (YudAC)
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For a chick, you've got some set of balls!
Ah, the immortal Diceman. Another victim of PC, whose like we shall not see again.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at October 29, 2005 12:14 PM (0yYS2)
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