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"...He rarely says more than yes and no to me. It is not because he is surly. He has no ideas to utter..." Jack London, The Star Rover "Despite the potential of turning every Internet user into a publisher ... somewhere between 2 percent and 7 percent of adult Internet users in the United States actually keep their own blogs. Of those, only about 10 percent update them daily, the majority doing so only once a week or less often." Full Story The columnist has presumed that if people have not expressed their mind in the past, it was because of technical bottle-necks, neglecting the fact that the most important "must have" to express ideas is something to talk about. A survey shows that US youngsters do not know the location of hotspot countries, of which related news are on screen almost incessantly, a confirmation for the hypothesis that they don't pay attention to what's going on around (not even after a shocking event such as nine eleven). Not a big surprise if majority of the online people still do not blog. In Iran, at the other extreme, things go on a bit different: Although blogging in Persian is technically not as easy as in English, and in spite of all restrictions set by Iranian state, it has become quite popular, (see this) and those who can read Persian will be amazed by wide range of topics and viewpoints in Persian weblogs. The problems being raised from this overpublishing are a lot, I have to admit; but that's the fault of social/political circumstances, not bloggers. In fact some professionals of different subjects are trying to extend "good-style blogging" among Iranians, but like every novel phenomenon, it will take time to find its way... Posted @ 3/02/2004 03:18:00 PM ______________________________________________
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