Blogs will ruin us

Yes -- I know this is a blog.

I'm part of the problem. I've decided that blogs are nothing more than an appeal to our conceit (and laziness) -- to think that The World wants to read our thoughts daily.

No. Blogs are noise. Echoes of an original idea repeated until the original meaning is lost. Karaoke. Navel gazing.

The biggest mistake made by the great Internet Architects was that they did not enforce a semantic layer. (Of course, if they had done, the web might not have taken flight.)

My dream for the internet is a structure that would eliminate repetition. More of an academic model of publishing, where it would not be enough to say "here's a cool link" -- instead you would have to actually add a bit of insight.