I just read a comment in slashdot this morning that blogs are just narcissistic rantings, I guess there are many views to it and I certainly don't see it this way.

I believed blogging is a way for people to keep journal of themselves, voice their opinions about things, and make their marks on earth. It's like people have their own homepage in the old days (yeah, I make it sound ancient, but it just barely over 10 years ago), and that's that. Are those empty me-too, hello-world like homepages just narcissistic rantings? Maybe. But it's called "Freedom of speech".

Yes, maybe search engine need to be smarter so people can filter out blog/moblog when searching for "information" and don't want to know someone's opinion about it.

To me, blogging is a way for me to horn my writing skills and critical thinking. I often found myself too "whatever" and "soft" to things I read, which I could be more sensitive to. It comes down to make some analysis and form an opinion on things I read. That's why I do blogging.

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