There's been a recent flurry of articles like this one discussing blogs, bloggers, and blogging, most of which hinge on the great questions like: Will my blog bring me oodles of money? Will Jodi Wilgoren read my blog? Will I ever have drinks with Wonkette? Here’s an alternative, sweet Mary I promised myself I’d never use the word, 'meme' for all you hard-working reporters: blogs, bloggers, and blogging foster discourse and debate and community and are helping to rebuild our crumbled civil society and socialize our young people. Can we not pretend that these are important things, even when they don’t involve fortune and celebrity? Continue to write these inane stories, and you will forever be ridiculed like the IBM engineer who said of the microchip "but what is it good for?" Oh, you will be, my friend. You will be.
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