“I still look for people with early blogger energy, though — people willing to make an effort to understand the world and engage in a way that isn’t a performance, or trolling, or outright grifting. Enough of them, collectively, can be agents of change”: Elizabeth Spiers, “Requiem for Early Blogging.”
So it was, back in the day and, still today. Early or late, early blogger energy.
Friday, November 28, 2025
“Early blogger energy”
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It seems like it's hard to have a good conversation now — to talk about what's going on in the world without it either being all about politics or ignoring politics entirely. I'm not sure about "agents of change." I think posting regular notes online is more about keeping ordinary conversations going in difficult times.
I used to have a thick book called "blog!" The lower case "b," and the exclamation mark, were on purpose, to signify the contents were not stogy establishment, not big media. The contents were mostly essays, and a few interviews with bloggers such as survivor-of-dysfunction Will Wheaton.
There was such innocent excitement that ordinary citizens, ladies and gentlemen with ethics and honesty, could supplement journalists. Ordinary people would have a voice, and enjoy a blog community.
Many of the early blog forums were for computer nerds, the sort of innocent people who thought it would be Okay if a cellular telephone had only one button to call 911, and who didn't imagine any death threats coming from untraceable sites.
I am annoyed at such innocence, and I miss it.
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