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There is a huge difference between an article and a blog. Huge difference! A blogger, in my humble opinion, is someone who uses the vastness and anonymity of the Internet to rant and rage about a subject matter in which they proclaim to be an expert. That threshold of expertise seems to rise and fall according to whoever the expert might be. And once that they have planted their expert flag, they are not bashful about going toe to toe with those who legitimately are experts. The bloggers never let credentials, or tag lines that even the old CB radio fans would die for, get in the way of a good hissy fit, to their "many" followers. They have found a stage and no one is going to drop the curtain on them. Thank goodness, we can still turn off our computers in times of blogging overload. <br /> <br /> There is something to be said for these bloggers however. If these people were to walk up to us in a public space, and begin to unload all of that which has apparently been pent up for some time, or at least since their last blog fest, we would calmly walk away or run away in a full sprint; whichever was appropriate for the occasion.But once that verbal spew has been migrated into the computer screen, some will actually read it. Even if, after reading it, when they might say that the blogger is an obvious nut, they may very well read the next one as well. I would say that this makes no sense, but I am reminded that there are also some people who actually watch the Kardashians too. As long as people are willing to watch an hour of the Kardashians, bloggers can rest assured that there will always be people to read their blogs. <br /> <br /> Who started these things any way? Apparently the formal blogs started in the late nineties from a series of on-line diaries. Well, that sort of explains it. Guess who the President was in the late nineties? Of course, that would be old Bill Clinton himself. From 1993 until 2001, we surely had plenty to talk about. What a better course of maintaining our sanity than to sit down at our computer and beat our computer keyboards to a pulp talking about everything, from impeachment proceedings to how to get a stain out of a dress. It was an absolute cornucopia of material that needed to be vented in any way possible. The blog offered that opportunity for many who sat in the dark, in front of their computers, hammering out their opinion of whether or not our country was going down the drain. The blogs became our virtual Drano, and the bloggers were the Internet based plumbers. <br /> <br /> As with many fads that we all believe will go away as quickly as they came

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