In a blog at Home Grazing, I mention the coming of Google based advertising.
It will be tried there first before being inflicted on the kind readers here.
In this blog, the Lockergnome derides those of us who make day to day entries.
It is assumed by him that the blogs belong to the technoheads, the ubergeeks, as we
call them at work. We are all geeks in a way, or we wouldn't be posting blogs.
I co-ran the Golden Gate Computer Society BBS in Marin County, CA, ten years ago.
Some people WAY back then believed the bbs should be restricted to cyber-related chat;
that all the unrelated chatter, or Chaff, as we called it then,
should be removed by the SysOp.
As a red blooded American SysOp, a survivor of Parris Island, I could not, in good
conscience edit them out.
I did provide them with a forum of their own.
Too many occupants on one soap box destroyed the box.
On a good day, in the Speaker's Corner of London's Hyde Park, each speaker is given enough space,
enough elbow room for the crowd to hear and not be overwhelmed by a nearby speaker.
Each blog can be considered a speaker's box, a billboard, or a textbook, or a million or so
other choices. If every book was the same, if all we could print were bibles, where would
civilization be today?
Thank the stars for Burma Shave!!!
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