a convert
i am sold on blogging. yesterday i accidentally discovered a blogger who lives in spain and became enraptured with her blog, and then with the blogs that she reads, posted on her site. i read blogs from different parts of spain, chile, and argentina.
today i watched a video of a village market in Togo, posted a peace corps volunteer's site.
technology is a paradox. we all hate it and love it. it's terrible and great at the same time. what i think we need to do, inspired from a recent conversation with my best friend, is use technology for good-like...well anything really. we have the technology to make technology better. you see yet another paradox. but love of money, the root of all evil, is why technology is exploited and why we are wasteful. people want to make a profit, not do good. people are not conscious of their actions...
back to blogging, i am discovering that it is a wonderful thing-a monstruous web that connects the entire world-or at least those who are literate and have access to a computer. well, that hardly makes up even half the world...but still. we can learn things.
this picture, if you can see past the glare, is an example of bad, wasteful technology. one of islands in the hawai'i chain has been devastated because of its use as a test site for the U.S. military. sigh...
posted by leah v @ 1:13 AM
2 Comments:
leah, yea, the whole blogging thing is pretty amazing. i had a recent conversation with someone in South Africa who talked about blogging, etc, as a truely democratic forum. her example (and hope) was that the internet would help relieve circumstances in China, India... and the list continues.
leah, i've thought a lot about blogging as maybe one of the truely democratic forums. what do you think?
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