Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Blog-hopping

In the restraint-free blogosphere, it's a welcome relief to find that Blogger, at least, maintains an excellent level of respectability through its fantastic, viewer-dependent flagging system. Yep, basically, Blogger is awesome. Just clicking through the blogs is such a humbling experience, reminding you that you're not the center of the universe, even while you realize how interesting other people's lives can be.
It's particularly fascinating for me to stumble across one in a foreign language, which happens not infrequently. Spanish, French, Malaysian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, other languages I can't even recognize...Bound together by invisible, unbreakable threads spun by an impressive, impersonal spider, collectively forming the World Wide Web. Whoever coined that term was quite the idealist to believe the future Internet would connect more than it destroyed, but perhaps it has...