Sunday Times – Columnists – David Bullard

…there are no rules out there in the blogosphere…

On the contrary, me thinks there are a great many rules – but they, or at least some of them, are subtle, fuzzy, relatively tiny and change a lot of the time.

Ironically the blogosphere,
being as it is an absolutely abstract construct
an absolutely artificial hap-hazard concoction of a few basic protocols of chronology
cross referenced content with or without audience or interaction
indistinct boundaries of authorship – ownership
and really simple syndication is,
remarkably organic.

With blogging , web 2.0 and social media the rules are different, flimsy virtual rules for a virtual genre I suppose. The blogosphere is called that, sphere, perhaps partly cause its a bubble. Granted with more than its fair share of hot-air. For the moment though it’s a quaint not-so-little cyber-thetic ecology, buzzing with many buzzards and the odd Bullard. And it is useful.

Name and shame offensive bloggers?
Perhaps, but only if your intention is to support them, and to what ever end?

As for anonymity, me thinks like fairness and good taste this notion can be a pleasant comfort but is mere illusion, nothing more. Everything and anything can be tracked if it is or becomes important enough.

Attention is an increasingly valuable and rare commodity, why waste it?

(I don’t get enough time to practice my air-piccolo as it is, and now I’m going to have to spend some of that precious time reading today’s Bullard columnoscopy :-\ )