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Blogs...how effective are they in news dissemination? How were they even part of news dissemination? Why bother blogging at all? Are they really all they crack up to be? Are they even legitimate?

These questions has been burning on slow burner at the back of my mind for sometime now. It seems that we lived in a world full of contradictions. Observe how we say "Cold as hell" and "Hot as hell" to basically mean the same thing, i.e.:extremely. Or how we say "Like hell!" or "Hell yeah!". In this case, using the same term, "hell" to make it mean two totally dissimilar things, which the example sought to show, "Impossible" in the first instance, and "Excellent!" in the second.

So too the world of blogging...if it has come to such monstrosity; because it too has succumbed to the confusion of contradictions. How so in this case is easily observed by two values shared by everyone on this planet (well...at least humans); that of privacy and secrecy. These two values are as opposite as opposites can be and blogging as we know it, is an interplay between these two values.

One one hand there are millions who sought to bare all to the Internet public, posting everything and anything about themselves on personal blogs leaving little if any to imagination. And on the other hand, millions more are so secretive that they refuses even to publish their IP address, let alone their blogs (if they even have one). Most of the pseudo-secretive types hover in the middle. They post personal rambling, but hides behind a cloak of anonymity; standard practice now.

But the point is, while two extremes exist, the later category (those pseudo-anonymous) bloggers are the ones I'm talking about now, about contradictions. They want to bare all, and yet they want to hide. They want to hide their name, and yet they want others to know what they ate for supper. They want others to know they love sex, but decline to mention normal sex or same-sex sex...and the list goes on.

You get what I mean? Is it vanity or is it voyeurism? Is it expressionism or is it conservatism? You tell me.