Self-Iteration with Bloggers and the Need to Be Right

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i-Technology Viewpoint: Are We Blogging Each Other To Death? @ WEB 2.0 JOURNAL:

[T]his is a prime example of what my old Cambridge friends would call self-iteration. In other words, Carr himself skims along the surface in his blog, without going deep, in order to demonstrate that one of the perils of the blogopshere is intellectual hydroplaning.

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Bloggers, it very often seems, are all legends in their own minds; they commit arson every day in their imagination, burning down the previous day’s lies and distortions. Worse still, so many bloggers suffer from what Albert Camus called “the sign of a vulgar mind,” namely the need to be right.

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I would go so far as to say that, on a bad day anyway, there would seem to be an inverse ratio between an opinion’s worth and the ease with which that same opinion can be expressed and disseminated.