Missing the Boat

Well it seems that I have missed the boat for having a blog of any importance based in Japan. If you are a little behind the times here is a defination of a blog or weblog:

"Blog” is short for “Web log.” Several years ago, heavy Web surfers began creating logs—compendia of curious information and interesting links they encountered in their travels through cyberspace.

I know that I am sounding a little cynical, but doesn't someone have to be? I mean there are a million and one fads that have come and gone in Japan and I have to get upset at one? I guess so because I am feeling the way that I do. I mean isn't almost cliche' now? I mean the long beaten to death horse of a gaijin sob story about how they hate the food, the city, heat, ect. Isn't it that a another set of eyes will see every situation differently, even in the same country, let alone a totally different country like japan? That is to be expected, naturally. I am left asking if we need any more of these blogs clogging up search engines and other 'net pipes? I can't wait until there are moblogs from hobos on the street corner as they are panhandling. I guess I spoke too soon.

I know that there are going to be people in the blogging community that are going to want to nail me to the wall and tell me that I am totally wrong. Well I would tell these critics of mine that blogging and mobloging are just the re-invention editorials that were so comman only 10 years ago before the megahit of the internet. They could be found in the daily newspaper and in the weekly magizines that everyone used to get. Now they are a dieing breed. We are still dealing with the written word here and nothing that wasn't invented 553 years ago with the Gutenberg Bible. The meduim has changed that is for sure. I will have to concede on this point.

Well I think that it all boils down to the fact that we as humans haven't come that far since the invention of the Gutenberg Printing Press. I know that some would argue with me on this fact alone, but I am going to stand my ground because man is still neglecting man and we are forever killing each other as people soon had hoped would stop after the bible was able to be freely distubuted to all.

So yes, we still need blogs until we can beat the humanity of each other into all that will listen. If we don't write it then there is no hope.

Check out this feature in the Metropolis to get a current picture of the blogging scene there.