Today’s edition of The Globe and Mail has a story in the Globetechonology section about the recent brouhaha over Sam Bulte in the world of blogs. Here’s a very apt excerpt:
But the copyright fundraising flap shows off the Web’s best
potential. It gave experts a platform for non-partisan arguments,
backed up by primary sources (you can go read Bulte’s reports, draft
legislation, and even party invites on-line). It was almost entirely
bereft of ad-hominem sleaze. It opened up lines of communication with
the mainstream press, and not just to bash it. It advanced an idea, not
just an agenda.
The Web, as the writer Nicholas G. Carr has observed, is amoral. The
blogging phenomenon isn’t necessarily a force for social progress — or
regress, either. One can hope against hope that, as the Web matures,
this informed kind of action might become more the rule and less the
exception.
One Comment
I’d rather be immoral than amoral. And maybe immortal too. Although I’ll probably have to bump up my RRSP. Maybe that’s where the immoral comes in.
–Ice Queen