Doin' some readin'

I found this really cool site last night while looking up cyberpunk. It seems like there's just layers upon layers of goodness here. For instance, in the introduction to cyberpunk, there were links to explanations of postmodrenism, transhuminism, and nihlism, not to mention steampunk, cyberpunk fashion, and a college course on cyberpunk. Tres cool! In my recent reading about blogs, it seems to me that some people consider blogs more the province of experts on a particular topic rather than a soapbox for everyman. I find this disturbing since one of the emerging trends of our increasingly technological society is to try to put basic technology in the hands of as many people as possible. I'd imagine the people (really, corporations) with real money backing these sorts of efforts are generally in hot pursuit of the bottom line. Technology may equal effiency in their minds, though not necessarially in practice. Other groups are trying to get technology into the hands of the disenfranchised and the semienfranchised as a means for social reform. For example, in little Ashland, WI, there is a small group of people working to refurbish old computers, install Debian Linux on them, and sell them at very low cost or flat out give them to people who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford them.Read more about it here. I think this is mostly about giving children in poor familes more opportunity to access information as well as providing a source of inexpensive machines for microbusinesses. But it goes the other way, too. Once one of those poor kids (Or any of us, for that matter. I mean, really.) gets hooked up with a free e-mail account (Yahoo Hotmail) and a spot at one of the free blog resources (Blogger, of course, or check out this list of others), he or she can contribute his or her experience back into the flow. In fact, a blog could help them potentially become recognized experts on their situation.

The point:

You don't have to be an expert to have a blog. You have to write.