Just read an article about a study that reports blogging is very uncool among the young. Only demographic where blogging is on the rise is among "geezers", who are defined as "over 30." Now there's a statement about the youth culture for you! What does that make bloggers over 70 like myself? Invisible? Irrelevant? Dead?
Actually the best blogs, manned by folks over 30 I'm sure, are a new form of journalism, sites like Art Scatter and The Daily Dish. Cyberspace lets good journalists/observers/critics, like Bob Hicks and Andrew Sullivan who host the sites above, spread their wings in a way limited print space never did. This is the sense in which social and political commentary has improved since the Internet. Of course, given how easy it is for anyone to comment, there's also many, many tons of crap available, the junk mail of cyberspace. But great stuff is there to be found.
Let the kids twitter and let geezers use the blogs in a serious manner. Said the dinosaur.
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