If Reading Blogs Cost Money, We’d Not Be Pissing Our Lives Away Looking At So Many of Them
An article I read yesterday got me thinking about the things we are willing to pay for and the value we place on things that are free.
The Economist World in 2008 special edition has an article about the very low cost of storing information electronically.
This is one reason there are so many blogs and so many sources of information on the internet. It cost next-to-nothing, in financial terms at least, to set up a blog or a webpage.
As well-established by this blog, anybody can do it regardless of having anything of merit to communicate.
The flipside of this is that it is difficult to get anybody to pay for what they read online. If I started charging 25 cents a day for the right to read this blog, I’m not sure I’d get many takers.
Why pay when you have a million other blogs you can read for free?
This made me wonder if people would be better off in some respects if online content did sometimes cost money. Having to pay might force people away from the computer.
Also, if we paid for what we read, we might better recall what we had spent our valuable time reading. Of all the many blog posts you have read, how many can you remember?
Above is a picture of Turkey Swamp Park outside of Freehold, New Jersey. Maybe we should turn off the computer and go to a nice park.
Or, if the computer were turned off, maybe we would spend more time with each other. Sitting at the computer is such a solitary activity.
We could read to each other as the happy couple below is enjoying.
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Texas Liberal is a blog of politics and political history.
My name is Neil Aquino. Here is my profile.
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Additional focuses of the blog are books, art, poetry, personal relationships and, also, sea life and marine mammals.
( The picture above is of the Houston Ship Channel. A narrow channel can lead to a wide sea.)
The signature post of this blog is the Martin Luther King Reading & Reference List. This list is the best of it’s kind on the web.
Another good post is my reciting the words to the Shaker hymn Simple Gifts on Galveston Island, Texas as a ship passes behind.
I live in Houston, Texas and I do sometimes write about political issues in Houston and in Texas.
I also often write about my former hometown of Cincinnati, and about the great beach city of Galveston, Texas.
I define liberalism as a role for government in the economy to help make life more fair, and a broad acceptance of people regardless of who they are.
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Texas Liberal began regular posting on July 25, 2006.
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there is no doubt that we all spend too much time on the computer as a society. we are loosing homan conact and a very fast rate. maybe if humans did not suck so bad we might want to hang out and converse more. we could volenteer to help old people or be a big brother? but the root of blogging is communication and opinion. So we voice our loves and frustrations and we get opinions we would not normally get from our friends and families so blogging is good overall.
or in my case learn how to spell!
William—It would be nicer if people were more easy to get along with.
Blogging does provide a good forum for many people.
I wonder sometimes that when all is said and done, we will be glad with how we spent out time.
i think we all could fine tune time management and probably be more generous with out time for others and causes and productive activities that would help the world or locally. i think the more people talk and think the more they will find they have in common. not talking favorite color of if you like indian food or not. the real common thread that holds us together. kindness