tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post3056353808491264218..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: Is Blogging Declining?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-17875690336055976152009-07-09T17:35:35.043-04:002009-07-09T17:35:35.043-04:00My mail delivery this afternoon included the Summe...My mail delivery this afternoon included the Summer 2009 issue of The Wilson Quarterly that includes an article by James Morris titled "Divided By" with this description: "Oversharing is the newest social disease. A hundred Facebook friends aren't worth a half dozen of the to-the-death, flesh-and-blood sort." Perhaps it is my age, but Barbra Steisand's song for me is transposed: "People who DON'T need people are the luckiest people in the world." Morris says: "I'm struck by the new divide between those of us who still hoard our privacy as shrewd nations once hoarded gold and those who've erased the boundary separating their private and public lives, who've decided, apparently, that there's nothing so private it can't be, shouldn't be, shared in public." I refuse to have a cell phone, enjoying that I cannot be contacted by others when it suits them. Leave a message, please; maybe I'll return the call. In a few years I'll be completely unplugged literally and perhaps I should prepare for it. Don't call me; I'll call you. Tweat and out; in your Face-book!Shag from Brooklinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07312591102812315460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-75922392600740661902009-07-09T12:54:02.377-04:002009-07-09T12:54:02.377-04:00I do facebook. It isn't set up for comments of...I do facebook. It isn't set up for comments of any length, which makes for limited discussion. I think of it as conference chatter -- you know, when you go around a party at a conference and touch base with everyone, but only briefly. I can't imagine it replacing blogs. But I may (of course) be wrong.Eleanorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352807916271183801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-43427494404849770962009-07-09T11:05:06.444-04:002009-07-09T11:05:06.444-04:00I recently got myself on Facebook, but spend littl...I recently got myself on Facebook, but spend little time on it and mostly use it for social communications. I do not twitter. I am still on a few internet lists, but mostly ones that are very low key, such as the History of Economics list. Some of those are still good news sources, such as the Russia List run by David Johnson, who aggregates material from many different sources.rosserjb@jmu.eduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09300046915843554101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-70933403065516333592009-07-09T09:16:19.762-04:002009-07-09T09:16:19.762-04:00Just as with traditional newspapers, certain blogs...Just as with traditional newspapers, certain blogs earn trusted editorial content. And those blogs should survive. I don't twitter or Facebook and don't intend to at age 78. But good blogs augment traditional newspapers. I would be interested in learning how much time people spend on twitter and Facebook.Shag from Brooklinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07312591102812315460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-6404934755770197452009-07-08T22:10:47.241-04:002009-07-08T22:10:47.241-04:00Yes, of course, the value of a traditional newspap...Yes, of course, the value of a traditional newspaper isn't that it's on paper but that it has trusted editorial content, as well as superior archived evidence (even if considered as double hearsay in the courts).Orlando Roncesvalleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15787159826210287420noreply@blogger.com