tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17639100.post3933889906749280851..comments2024-01-30T20:05:29.835+10:00Comments on Woolly Days: Blogging in the NoughtiesDerek Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15581505641163336050noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17639100.post-76665980310852806242010-01-04T21:49:38.893+10:002010-01-04T21:49:38.893+10:00Thanks for your kind comments, Hels.
I appreciate...Thanks for your kind comments, Hels.<br /><br />I appreciate your comments about democracy and agree that greater access is not commensurate to actual democracy. <br /><br />Your 'what if' scenario makes me wonder how life in the Joh era might have been different had participatory technology like blogging existed in the 1970s. <br /><br />Perhaps you are right and it wouldn't have stopped it. I'm watching the "no clean feed" campaign with interest but suspect it doesn't have resonance in the wider (non uber-connected) community. <br /><br />And Qld voters kept voting Joh back into power despite the newspapers and television giving prominence to outrages such as Cloudlands.<br /><br />So I recognise that blogger rage doesn't necessarily equate to community anger. But I'd like to think it might have made some difference.Derek Barryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15581505641163336050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17639100.post-84534846928296345152010-01-04T14:52:50.724+10:002010-01-04T14:52:50.724+10:00"All have been crucial in democratising the I..."All have been crucial in democratising the Internet. Yet none of them have had the same effect on democracy itself as much as technology that predated the decade. That technology is blogging, which seems almost old hat as the Noughties draw to a close."<br /><br />I immediately want to state that greater access to information does not a democracy make. Even if 100% of the population received 100% of the information, we MIGHT still have a passive, disengaged public.<br /><br />Imagine if Cloudlands was about to be destroyed in 2010. Would the developers have let people know what their plans were in time? The council had already forbidden the destruction, but would the council have enforced its own ruling? Would the police have been stopped from acting against the interests of ordinary families? Would the Brisbane bloggers all be so outraged that thousands of blog-readers would storm up the mountain to save their beloved building?<br /><br />I know Cloudlands is just one example, and not of world significance at that. But you know what I mean.<br /><br />many thanks for your blog<br />Hels<br />Art and Architecture, mainly<br />(Melbourne)Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.com