Blog Triumphalism

Blog triumphalism was the word my Sociology professor employed to portray the Rathergate and Downing Street memo scandals. As a student of Sociology, as soon as Firefox unfolded the DeafRead list and Jared's post "sociological" title was the first word that caught my eye. Naturally. The truth is, that was a genuinely creepy moment of the day for me because yesterday, my class had a two and half hour expostulating (reasoning earnestly) discussion about "How Sociology Impact on Weblogs and How Weblogs Impact on Sociology" subject. And today, Jared apprised us his brief but thoughtful observation on it.

Pepe's weblog is a good example of blog triumphalism.

I would like to share my experiences with you about how my first weblog turned out. By my former Sociology professor's proposition, the Department of Education (at my university) granted me the weblog account. I was counseled to promote my weblog discussing Interpersonal relationships and an articulated European woman's sociological perspective on American culture for almost 14 months. To my dismay, it was firewalled and could be accessed by my university students solely but periodically commented by them. With my having much noticed, stimulated and cultivated by posters' both corresponded and differentiated contemplations, my views on men, especially American men, have been sustainedly evolved for better over time.

Several months into my first year of attending and residing at the American university; given my looks, free-spirit, good-natured attitude and naïveté, I was approached by many various American men who obviously, strategically, tried to coax me into their beds. After months of bitter experience with their juvenile games, I heretofore erroneously chastised (and generalized) American men wholly as [insert profanity] for mistreating and objectifying women, including me. For your information, I was a teen when I transferred to this university from a non-English European country so everything was unaccustomed and bizarre to me. Note: observing them and socializing with them, it revealed to me that some women are no better either by playing games with men's emotion, mentality and the worst of all, ego. But my lack of American culture was consistently cultivated and progessed by the posters and a few brilliant female university webloggers' contemplations regarding the aspects of relationships. The weblogs and socializing with my Kappa sisters helped me learned how to distinguished the jerks and gentlemen. There were a lot of Sociology-related discussions which debunked various America myths that set upon me, foreign women and contributed ideas to bridge the emotionally intelligent relationship between men and women. One of our female webloggers is planning to write a book about the relationship-wise weblogs.

Which drive the point I want to quote: Blogs democratize ideas. Guess who said that. It was Xeni Jardin, a resourceful female tech culture journalist and a weblogger of the award-winning weblog, Boing Boing. Her weblog was revealed to us by our Sociology professor.

Back to Sociology class, we compared notes. The weblogs exploded everywhere left to right, top to bottom. They have signaled the centralization and internationalization of science, philosophy, art, technology, culture, politics, et alia. It's unquestionably true. The borderline between various countries are actively vanishing and the concept of democracy is crawling wearily but lively on the ground crossing their countries. By capitalizing the internet and the benefits of weblogs, Chinese webloggers are revitalizing the dissent and democratic movement in China to break off from the capitalistic communist Chinese government's iron fist.

The professor put forward the BAS topic. BAS stands for Blog Aggregation System, the innovation technology as Stephen Turcotte (the credit goes to my classmate, Liam for the link and weblog) illustrated, "Blogs will be connected by a blog aggregation system that is a way to feature the most active blogs and also connect the audience to the most relevant conversations." Can you guess which weblog site utilized the BAS idea? DeafRead.

A few seconds after the professor raised the topic, BAS, I quickly raised my arm to notify him of the DeafRead site. While I'm computer illiterate, I tried my best to illustrated the DeafRead site to the class which led us to catapulting and renovating ideas (although, I didn't understand their technobabble, I enjoyed listening anyway). The discussion was all but fascinating until the strike-out question directly pitched at me by the professor: "Do hearing webloggers receive the commensurate treatment in the DeafRead site?" I couldn't lie to him so I answered truthfully by explaining the "Deaf Only" feature. He, then, smirked which I knew it was bad for me and proclaimed to the class, "That's a fine example of an undemocratic idea." That was a hard swipe at me. There was a gulflike rift between us ever since that day I challenged him on the Sociocultural French-related subject which resultingly embarrassed him in his classroom last summer. Thereafter, I learned that it is never a good idea to embarrass the professors, especially in the classrooms. If I talked back or challenged him, I'm liable to be in grade-wise trouble. Therefore, I had to swallow the irritation I felt when the professor swiped at me and let it float away.

Aside from the professor's strikeout ball, the Sociology effect on the weblogs we discussed that Jared briefly illustrated at his weblog was stimulating.

Oh. I overheard the veteran sport male weblogger talking to another guy right after the Sociology class was over. He said, "Use the blog, Luke". If anyone didn't get it, that was a Star Wars reference.

Party time. Buonanotte! [Good night!]