Blogs: The Final Frontier

Blogging these last weeks was an interesting exercise to me. I am glad I was able to participate in what has started to become a burst of new media on the scene.

Blogs may be the most acceptable form of media to date. They are free, they are about anything and everything, and anyone can write them. Some are more popular than others but that is not because of accessibility but because of actual blogging ability and interesting viewpoints. Blogs are weaned out in the purest of ways: directly by the participation of the active audience.

And if any given individual does not like what they are reading, they can start their own blog. Everyone has the opportunity to say what they want to say, to represent themselves in whatever light they choose.

While I’m not saying blogs is the ultimate form of expression (Its often just a bunch of dorks with too much time on their hands, or a group of college students conducting a social experiment), they are interesting in the sense that they are not ruled by laws of profit, production, or outside representation. They are run solely by the individual and his ideas.