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I remember the precise day when I realized the power of blogging. It was September 5th 2005, a week after Hurricane Katrina hit. Local newspapers were wiped out and national papers had difficulty getting in. However, regular people with friends, family who lost everything in the floods got on the internet and told their stories. They were not hindered by stringent standards of journalism, political al
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12.17.08
This is one of my favorite parts about blogging too. But at some point we have to remember that it's not all about talking, but also doing.
Sometimes it's easy for us to get caught up in the debating and ongoing dialogue that we forget to put our money where our mouth is.
Great post Allison! Thanks for taking the time to write it.
-RP
12.18.08
This is the case, blogging allows us to see things we wouldn't otherwise see, hear, and partake. It involves us in discourse we would otherwise miss, and that is significant.
Ryan has a point about the dialogue not being the only significant thing. That is a different subject/topic though. A lot of blogs, even more well known blogs, are written by people who have never really done anything but write or speak of things. Ideas though very significant are never enough. I hope we don't end up with a world full of too much talk and not enough action - we already have that and I'd like to see blogging in some way reverse that trend, but it looks as if the reverse might happen.
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