Who Are These Slackers?

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So The Pew Internet and American Life Project suggest that the majority of bloggers are somewhat casual about the whole thing.

“The impression out there is that a lot of the blog activity is very feverish,” said Lee Rainie, the Pew project’s director. “That’s not the case. For most bloggers, it’s not an all-consuming, all-the-time kind of experience.”

Of course there’s a nagging voice in the back of my mind where images of the Matrix-like pods mix with Wintermute/Neuromancer’s “diabolical” goals and blogging is suspected of being some AI’s entry into total mind control of the world {insert sinister laugh here}…and then I step outside and go have a beer…

3 thoughts on “Who Are These Slackers?”

  1. I guess that, fundamentally, it comes down to where you set the quotation marks – who’s allowed under the Blogger Umbrella? Are we saying anyone who’s ever had a Blogspot site? Or only those who blog a minimum of once a week?
    Obviously the majority of people who have blogged at least once is going to fit the slacker description – they never did it again.

  2. “Of course there’s a nagging voice in the back of my mind where images of the Matrix-like pods mix with Wintermute/Neuromancer’s “diabolical” goals”
    Bah. Never understood what was so special about Neo, anyway. Any competent Buddhist would’ve grasped that There Was No Spoon right away and skipped right ahead to the groovey ultraviolence…

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