Call me a cynic but ...

[Vortex]

Roaming through the Interweb I see loads of posts about how great Obama is, and how the posters will do their best to supply Obama with information to support his drive for green energy etc etc etc.

Maybe I'm a jaded cycnic, but do these posters REALLY think that ANY effort they make ... short of 100KG of Semtex ... will have ANY effect on the course of world history whatsoever?

The blogosphere must be the best tool of social control ever devised ... drain peoples angers and worries by letting them spew meaningless drivel into blogs.

Obama has got off his backside and done REAL things ... I doubt he has spent more than a fraction of his time on the Web.

"Keep blogging Winston, keep blogging. Your PC needs you. Your life depends on it."

[skeptik]

The blogosphere must be the best tool of social control ever devised ...

No, thats TV. Top down broadcasting to every home, the perfect propaganda medium.

drain peoples angers and worries by letting them spew meaningless drivel into blogs.

The quality is hugely variable, from, as you say, meaningless drivel, to excellent analysis & commentary. Caveat Emptor! At least its uncensored (at the moment!)

a couple of goodies, for example.
http://www.rgemonitor.com/blog/roubini
http://londonbanker.blogspot.com/
and a bit of fun, but well written
http://www.agentsdiary.blogspot.com/

[chubbygristle]

yup, i know it's the telegraph but....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... le-TV.html

having a public sat there 'ready to receive' - just what you need for social control...

[biffvernon]

The blogosphere must be the best tool of social control ever devised ... drain peoples angers and worries by letting them spew meaningless drivel into blogs.

I suppose PowerSwitch and TOD are included in that?

[happychicken]

.[/quote]I suppose PowerSwitch and TOD are included in that?[/quote]

No they're the antidote

[Vortex]

The blogosphere must be the best tool of social control ever devised ... drain peoples angers and worries by letting them spew meaningless drivel into blogs.

I suppose PowerSwitch and TOD are included in that?

I'm not sure.

At the moment I'm reading a lot more books due to the wood burner being in an Internet-free zone.

It currently seems a lot more rewarding than sitting at the PC surfing the InterBlog - but I'm sure there's an optimum balance.

[johnathome]

thats TV. Top down broadcasting to every home, the perfect propaganda medium.

Too true, quote from Green Day, American Idiot

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Don't want to be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
It's calling out to idiot America.

No offence to our yank friends

[SunnyJim]

I agree with Vortex.

People 'complain' about the goverment on the BBC website, and feel that they've done their bit. Said their piece etc.

If that many people actually wrote to their MPs then maybe it would do something, but using 'have your say' on the BBC is, as far as I can tell, simply a cathartic excercise. I wonder if Powerswitch and OilDrum are similar. If these channels of communication were not availiable, maybe I would have spent more time forcing 'The Last Oil Shock' on people, maybe I'd have written more letters to my MP. Maybe I'd have started a green energy company or something. Who knows? Instead I've wittered away on here, which has helped me come to terms with PO, in a very non-active, non-status-quo upseting way.