voices in a chorus
On a lazy Saturday afternoon, I find myself compelled by NextBlog. Keep clicking on it, and it keeps taking you to different places, different people, different points of view. In my first five clicks, I found two personal journals, one blog railing against the establishment and the war on terrorism, and a circle of women who blog together and think interesting things.
I'm reminded of a film called Pump Up the Volume. Teenagers taking to the airwaves and making it their own. One voice in a chorus of voices, each unique and with something special to say. NextBlog is like that. It's a metaphor for why we love the web. Everyone can have a voice if they want to. Only trouble with NextBlog is it's limited to Blogger users only.
A really great idea would be a site that pulls from all kinds of blogs - MT, Blogger, Greymatter, Radio, etc. Maybe one big random button that takes you to any blog and then also the ability to configure to show only tech blogs, only journals, etc.
Of course, the best way to accomplish this would be to get the blog software makers to agree on a meta tag standard that could hold keywords like tech, or journal, or politics, you get the idea. The spider could then pick up the keywords and make note of them so that would be able to customize their randomness.
Customized randomness. Sounds like fun.
2002.08.24 05:34 PM