What in the world is up with the world of blogs? Blogs are meant to be this great new technology where people can share their ideas and interests with others around the globe. As far as I am concerned, the state of blogs is one of chaos, confusion, and anti-interactivity. The other day I decided to do some research on the Web and try to connect to some blog writers out there that interested me. Let me tell you it was not an enjoyable task as I had envisioned. I spent four painful hours surfing through around a thousand on-line journals, and I found only a few that interested me. What are we doing out there, people?



First, just getting to a blog can be a pain in the neck. For example, you type in the words ‘Philosophy blogs' and a whole bunch of sites come up. Some are conglomerate sites with thousands of journals, but the area you are searching for may have only one blog in it!

This is because they separate the blogs into a million different categories, like love', ‘lovers', ‘lovable' etc. Why not have just a few main categories to choose from?

The next problem is the content. People with ‘philosophical' blogs are having personal chats with their mates about the local dance competition on Tuesday!

Why not go to a chat room if you just want to talk to your friends? Blogs are supposed to be a personal viewpoint expressed to the whole Web community. Would not you actually like to meet more people like yourself? How is this going to happen if you talk in strange uncommon slang and acronyms that only you and your friends can understand? Please stick to the subject at hand, and take it at least half seriously.

Another major problem is the fact that you can find a cool blog that sparks an interest, but then find that the writer has not added an entry in over a year! What is it doing on the Net? Have these people passed away? I seriously doubt it, as there are so many blogs in this ‘lost' state. Having a blog is a responsibility; it is a shared diary for the whole community. How can someone form a relationship if you only write in your blog once a millennium?

Back to the subject of content: These on-line journals are a real chance to communicate regularly with others with similar views to yourself. We can learn a lot from each other, as each human is an individual with special traits and skills that only they have. So why do we see so many blogs just talking about trivial nonsense like ‘Who the coolest movie actor is.' Humanity is an intelligent species evolving everyday towards a higher consciousness. So where are all the thinkers out there, the people who have taken us to the next levels of spirituality and scientific exploration? I would really like to hear what you have got to say, but all I can find are philosophical beliefs on why dyed pink jeans express one's true inner self.

The issue of making comments on someone's blog is also a controversial one. Why have comments sections if you are not going to reply to people who have expressed an interest in what you have had to say? How is this community going to function if all the conversation is one-way! Come on people, wake up and smell the coffee! Let us change the blogging community into the awesome structure of shared knowledge that it was intended for.

Please do not let it turn into the small-talk world of chat rooms.