My god, What on earth are you doing here?
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Reading the speech John Ralston Saul gave in Australia a few years ago has given me an insight as to why the great need for blogs and bloggers.
My slant on this, bloggers are the first level talents, the "leaders" the ones crying out for the social reforms and foreign policy changes, the soon to be defining way of how this global community reacts to events, situations, the all encompassing global democracy. We have already started to define our leaders in this context already, a link here a link there, who's linking who...
Finished reading the speech, that bit just struck a chord and I had to get it down before I lost it.
The blogs are The Global democracy of the future, for lack of a better term. The great fractal of voices, if enough seem to point one direction that will be the direction taken by the global democracy. Critical mass is approaching it may be a ways off but, the mainstream media has caught wind of the phenomenon. The $64,000 Billion dollar question is, is this force strong enough to rule the IMF, WTO, GAAT and all those other wonderful agencies designed to keep multinational corporations with their narrow field of purpose and government, mostly just the U.S. government as it really has no opposition, and give the power back to where it belongs? The power, the power being a single voice being able to rouse enough commotion to commit change where change is needed. This is a danger one voice having that much power but look at the state of things now... is it any different, whose goals are we following, certainly not mine (a war on terrorism... give me a break). The cool thing about a global democracy is there are so many different voices out here it would be very difficult if not impossible for a extremist idea to be adopted, the idea would have to be sound. For example how many blogs link to the neo nazis, not any I read.
I love it when a thought/idea is forceful enough to make me think. Force me to write upon said idea and be articulate enough in its expression to be understood by at least me.
In conclusion John needs a blog :) I'd read it...
What do you figure look ok? Yeah well the <pre> tag didn't quite work out the way i wanted... info is too wide for the area. I also have to write up a style for <ul> and elements, but on the whole I think it looks ok. :) ... Back to muddin'
Recently passed a milestone (personal one that is) on the mud. My char is now has passed the 100 Million point in score :)
Igor's Hall of Fame
# Name Score Age # Name Score Age
|------------------------------------||------------------------------------|
| 56) Thunderman 143.3M 72D 13h || 71) Gimpy 102.9M 69D 14h |
| 57) Styggen 143.0M 116D 9h || 72) Verreaux 102.0M 200D 4h |
| 58) Fireforge 127.5M 88D 17h || 73) Gohnan 100.5M 37D 14h |
| 59) Kiticus 126.4M 58D 11h || 74) Sunboy 91.7M 53D 16h |
| 60) Pocket 124.5M 54D 21h || 75) Emperor 89.8M 55D 3h |
| 61) Toysoldier 123.2M 53D 0h || 76) Jhary 87.9M 184D 1h |
| 62) Poldark 119.9M 38D 16h || 77) Venom 85.2M 83D 20h |
| 63) Bobdole 118.2M 25D 18h || 78) Sefire 84.7M 36D 19h |
| 64) Pretzel 118.0M 42D 20h || 79) Shannow 83.8M 37D 3h |
| 65) Widget 111.6M 63D 1h || 80) Zetron 82.9M 21D 8h |
| 66) Jamesbond 107.9M 52D 0h || 81) Roxy 82.1M 47D 1h |
| 67) Eclipse 106.5M 33D 18h || 82) Goliath 80.1M 42D 18h |
| 68) Mago 105.8M 51D 6h || 83) Uboo 80.0M 39D 9h |
| 69) Nutter 105.5M 53D 17h || 84) Dearth 75.8M 52D 4h |
| 70) Ashes 104.1M 81D 7h || 85) Papabear 75.0M 62D 17h |
Your current position is 70 of 1197.
----------------- Imperium Knight of the Sunset Guard -----------------
You are Ashes wanders about the mud looking for explore pts (good)
Level: 20 Strength: 20 Hit points: 305 (362)
Score: 104,172,769 Magic: 26 (24) Spell points: 173 (250)
Experience: 7,033,821 Armed combat: 35
Gold: 45,714 Constitution: 40
Explored: 35.57% Sword*: Tyro (93.1%)
Whip: Amateur (0%)
You are currently shedding fur everywhere.
Age: 81 days, 7 hours, 45 minutes and 34 seconds.
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Well if you can have a worse night DJing please let me know.
Yay, no more messing with <table>, <tr>, <td> tags etc. Cascading Style Sheets (css) rock my world :) Gracias to Owen Briggs, glish.com, brainjar.com, tantek.com, alistapart.com and of course www.w3.org for making it all make sense.
