je l vam ide na živce što još postoje ljudi koji internet smatraju sredstvom otuđivanja, a one koji na njemu vise u najmanju ruku asocijalnima..
već sam se ponadala da su izumrli i da više nikad neću vidit kolutanje očima ako kažem da sam sinoć bila na netu do 2, kad me je jučer oborio govor u stilu "šta imaš bit toliko na mreži, to je bezveze, kako to možeš uopće, zar se nije bolje družit u nekoj birtiji bla bla bla bla bla bla bla"
mislim, ljudi, ono aloooooooooooooooooo... zašto net još uvijek povezujete sa pedesetikusurgodišnjim pedofilima, patološkim lažljivcima, i asocijalnim ferovcima (nick, miran!), zašto sat vremena na netu doživljavate kao gubitak vremena, a sat ipo gledanja prijateljske utakmice kapverdskih otoka i kazahstana zabavnom aktivnosti.
"bilo bi ti bolje da si išla na more umisto da si visila na netu" reka mi je moj, u tom trenutku vrlo friško bivši momak, koji niti je znao šta ja na tom netu radim (je li blog ili blok ili koji je vrag), niti je ikad probao visit na icq, mejlat se, a o newsgrupama da ne pričam.. rekla sam nešto u stilu "od sunca bi dobila bore, od ovog ću samo ostat malo ćorava eventually" i još da sam bila tamo di mi je ljepše..nisam spominjala to da sam ja na netu komunicirala na nekoliko različitih načina s masu ljudi, dok se on svaki dan odlazio okupat SAM, i šta je tu onda otuđivanje, jer mi se nije činilo da ima smisla..
samo zaboravim da ima još ljudi kojima je sve to...blesavo...
uglavnom, onda mi mama pošalje slijedeći link. o stavu unicefa o blogovima. o unicefovoj priči kako blogovi mijenjaju svijet, ako ćemo pravo.. prilažem cijeli tekst, jer mi se ne da prevodit, a i jer znam da su ljudi koji ovo čitaju selekcionirani po tome što relativno dobro barataju engleskim (lijenost not included).
Online community expert, Matthew Gross, examines the potential of online
journals as both powerful and empowering tools.
What is it about blogs that make them such a powerful force for social
change?
In the simplest form, a blog (short for weblog) is nothing more than a
journal kept on the web. There are millions of such journals on the
Internet and thousands more are created every day. A blog can be about
anything, and can range in scope from a personal diary to a journal
discussing sports, politics, or international affairs.
But what makes blogs much more powerful than traditional journals and, in
fact, what makes blogs empowering is the ability that bloggers have to link
to one another to debate one another's ideas, to challenge each others
thinking, or to point out something of interest to the rest of the world.
Most forms of mass communications are broadcast communications one person
or group disseminates its ideas or content to a larger audience. Before the
Internet, mass communication was inherently hierarchical the message went
from one to many. Television, radio, and print communication was (and still
is) accessible primarily to those with the economic means to purchase
advertisements or otherwise gain access to editorial control.
Blogs break down the monopoly of broadcast communication by providing the
power of self-publishing and by removing the traditional filters that often
keep the most powerful communications tools out of the hands of ordinary
people. Using a service like Blogger (http://www.blogspot.com/), for
example, a person can create a blog for free, within minutes. The technical
and economic barriers to blogging are very low if you have access to the
Internet, and can write an email, then you have all the skills necessary to
start your own blog.
But blogs aren't just a cheap way of starting your own website, or another
way of broadcasting a message because the blogosphere is an inherently
democratic medium. Information in the blogosphere moves laterally (rather
than vertically, as it does in traditional and hierarchical forms of mass
communication). The seed of an idea, written about by one person on their
blog, can be almost instantly expanded upon by another person linking to
the original post. A third blogger might add their own personal experience
to the discussion, making the conversation richer still. A forth person may
add a comment in the comment threads. In the blogosphere, anyone can become
a participant, instantly. In fact, that participation is what the
blogosphere is all about.
Blogs, then, are a many-to-many medium. By linking to each other and
beginning conversations, bloggers create a community that crosses
geographic and national boundaries. In the blogosphere, you can start up a
discussion with someone half a world away and in doing so play a role in
helping to further the bonds between people everywhere. And when bloggers
decide to take action together when the community they've formed agrees to
use its collective power to change the world the resulting change can be
amazing. For what is stronger than people acting together in common
purpose?