March 25, 2003

  • If your only knowledge of current events came from a sampling of random xanga, you’d have a good clue that spring is in the air but no idea whatsoever of the war in Iraq. 


    I randomly sampled 20 sites with blog dates Of March 21st or later.  Not one mention of war.  Here, instead, were the topics discussed:


    speeding ticket
    college
    coping with alcoholism
    volleyball practice
    band pics
    the Oscars
    xanga premium/eprops
    creatively destructive ranting and raving
    prom/relationship
    avoiding dirty old men
    rainy day
    basketball loss
    sunburn and pinkeye
    lacrosse and meds
    warm weather
    snowboarding/atm/pillow fights
    love bf/gf
    a trip to VA for games
    Hi!
    music lyrics


    Meanwhile, even though mentions of ‘warblogs’ dominate the non-blogging news about ‘blogging’ (see my blog 2 items below), and even though ‘warblogging’ seems like a couture item with some blogelites, blogging about the Iraq war seems to be falling off the fast track for now.  Perhaps it’s because the ‘embedded’ news media with their live visionphones have leaped over the blogosphere to make the impact of war more immediately accessible in the context of the established news media than ever before.  Perhaps it’s because the internet so far seems aware of (and thus has made semi-famous) only one Iraqi citizen blogger genuinely sharing his experiences from Iraq.  And even one of the most popular warblogs of this campaign, CNN’s Kevin Sites private blog about his on-the-ground experiences in Iraq, has been squashed by disapproving CNN management. 


    So it seems both in the mainstream (random) and even at the cutting edge of technological presentation, warblogs are losing the war of media preemption. 


    Well, it doesn’t matter, dammit.  Bloggers have better things to do!

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