Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Are bloggers too self-focused?
Om Malik is upset that the Indian blog ban is getting more attention than the Indian train bombings. Nishant and I beg to differ. It is perfectly natural that bloggers are more concerned about themselves than about a distant event. If you sat in a Mumbai train and listened to the conversation, we bet they’ll be talking about the bombings, not blogs.
If bloggers were talking about the bombings without either first-hand experience or new insight, that is when you should be calling them pretentious. The fallacy is in assuming that bloggers or the blogosphere have a greater purpose than navel-gazing.