Comments for Me blogging http://adrianbalan.wordpress.com - just me - Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:05:48 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Why do people write blogs ? – an open discution about the blog phenomenon by Stefan Thiesen http://adrianbalan.wordpress.com/2007/03/29/hello-world/#comment-87 Stefan Thiesen Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:05:48 +0000 #comment-87 Em - no. I can chance upon a blog and find a worthwhile opinion. But I am only one person. I can also have a conversation in a pub and encounter an opinion that I consider worthwhile. TV is a better multiplicator, but if you are a nobody in a trashy midday talkwhow that will not carry any weight either. If you publish in high scoring peer reviewed scientific journals you get recognition by your peers - but even Nobel laureates are not really getting through to the public (they all together issues several "warnings to the world", all of which went largely unnoticed by the general public at large. It is a big game, and most of us are standing at the sidelines, at best getting the five minutes of glory sometime in their life. Em – no. I can chance upon a blog and find a worthwhile opinion. But I am only one person. I can also have a conversation in a pub and encounter an opinion that I consider worthwhile. TV is a better multiplicator, but if you are a nobody in a trashy midday talkwhow that will not carry any weight either. If you publish in high scoring peer reviewed scientific journals you get recognition by your peers – but even Nobel laureates are not really getting through to the public (they all together issues several “warnings to the world”, all of which went largely unnoticed by the general public at large. It is a big game, and most of us are standing at the sidelines, at best getting the five minutes of glory sometime in their life.

]]> Comment on Why do people write blogs ? – an open discution about the blog phenomenon by adrianbalan http://adrianbalan.wordpress.com/2007/03/29/hello-world/#comment-86 adrianbalan Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:51:54 +0000 #comment-86 You have to be on TV that your oppinions are considered whileworthy ? You have to be on TV that your oppinions are considered whileworthy ?

]]> Comment on Why do people write blogs ? – an open discution about the blog phenomenon by Stefan Thiesen http://adrianbalan.wordpress.com/2007/03/29/hello-world/#comment-85 Stefan Thiesen Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:33:58 +0000 #comment-85 @faithfulldiagnostic: indeed. Like some of the maniacs at speaker's corner in Hyde Park/London. There you can say what you wish, but most of the time hardly anyone listens, and if so, nobody takes you seriously. BUT . They speak instead of running through the streats with long knives of concealed explosives... that is something ;-). @faithfulldiagnostic: indeed. Like some of the maniacs at speaker’s corner in Hyde Park/London. There you can say what you wish, but most of the time hardly anyone listens, and if so, nobody takes you seriously. BUT . They speak instead of running through the streats with long knives of concealed explosives… that is something ;-) .

]]> Comment on Why do people write blogs ? – an open discution about the blog phenomenon by Stefan Thiesen http://adrianbalan.wordpress.com/2007/03/29/hello-world/#comment-84 Stefan Thiesen Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:31:04 +0000 #comment-84 Ha - if you think that in fifty years the virtual world might be as real as our real world now - who says that this did not already happen? Like the goold old Edgar Allan Poe's "Dream within a Dream"? Blogging "as a question awaiting an answer" I find quite enlightened. That is a good way to see it. There are too many nincompoops out there who can barely switch on their computer and yet believe they know the answers to the world's deepest and most profound problems. The world famous author and anthropologist Kurt Vonnegut on the other hand labled thoughts as "flatulence of the brain". Words, then, would be the equivalents of escaping winds... ;-) Ha – if you think that in fifty years the virtual world might be as real as our real world now – who says that this did not already happen? Like the goold old Edgar Allan Poe’s “Dream within a Dream”?

Blogging “as a question awaiting an answer” I find quite enlightened. That is a good way to see it. There are too many nincompoops out there who can barely switch on their computer and yet believe they know the answers to the world’s deepest and most profound problems. The world famous author and anthropologist Kurt Vonnegut on the other hand labled thoughts as “flatulence of the brain”. Words, then, would be the equivalents of escaping winds… ;-)

]]> Comment on Why do people write blogs ? – an open discution about the blog phenomenon by Faithfullyagnostic http://adrianbalan.wordpress.com/2007/03/29/hello-world/#comment-83 Faithfullyagnostic Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:21:29 +0000 #comment-83 To give meaning to their pathetic and lonely life. Its very much a sign of the times - it gives a false sense of power with zero risk. The real life equivalent of a blogger would be a person standing on the street and babbling about shit that happened. Sad thing is that a crowd of people would listen to him. To give meaning to their pathetic and lonely life. Its very much a sign of the times – it gives a false sense of power with zero risk. The real life equivalent of a blogger would be a person standing on the street and babbling about shit that happened. Sad thing is that a crowd of people would listen to him.

]]> Comment on Romania, Roma, Racism and Madonna by alina http://adrianbalan.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/romania-roma-racism-and-madonna/#comment-82 alina Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:20:38 +0000 http://adrianbalan.wordpress.com/?p=34#comment-82 well done! no Romanian will admit that we live in a racist, egocentric society with an overdosis stupidity! alina well done! no Romanian will admit that we live in a racist, egocentric society with an overdosis stupidity! alina

]]> Comment on Romania, Roma, Racism and Madonna by adrianbalan http://adrianbalan.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/romania-roma-racism-and-madonna/#comment-80 adrianbalan Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:04:05 +0000 http://adrianbalan.wordpress.com/?p=34#comment-80 Well ... I just accepted this comment to give an example of a romanian who doesn't accept that is a rasist ... even though this one is. Sorry :( Well … I just accepted this comment to give an example of a romanian who doesn’t accept that is a rasist … even though this one is. Sorry :(

]]> Comment on Romania, Roma, Racism and Madonna by 0gar http://adrianbalan.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/romania-roma-racism-and-madonna/#comment-79 0gar Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:57:13 +0000 http://adrianbalan.wordpress.com/?p=34#comment-79 Yes, i'm one from many others who had booed Madonna at his concert, and i was part of 10% from the crowd who act promptly at his declaration, the others felt the same thing but they was more polite. This is the Romanian way of character, we are too damn' polite, instead to leave her alone by herself to sing without any audience. Who the hell she think she are ? Mother Teresa? She doesn't live here with us in Romania, where gipsies are thriving... Ofcourse are many poor gipsies in this country, but also exist poor Romanians who doesn't steel, who doesn't beg. The problem with the gipsies is that they are aloud, they cry all the time about extremism, about racism. As we all know, in other parts of Europe the gipsies are burned if they rape or steal. In this country they are put to jail, where they belong and where they stay for a short period of time, then they run in other country and scream about discrimination. There was no gipsies at the concert, they enjoy another kind of music called "manele", a mixt between bollywood music with oriental rythm. If she is so concerned about gipsy's life, why don't she just adopt (adopt = buy) some gipsy children and take them with her in Europe. They will spoil her sensible image for good. I will throw away my audio CD with Madonna, and probably it will be picked up from garbage from a gipsy and he will put it at the rear mirror from his stealing car. Yes, i’m one from many others who had booed Madonna at his concert, and i was part of 10% from the crowd who act promptly at his declaration, the others felt the same thing but they was more polite. This is the Romanian way of character, we are too damn’ polite, instead to leave her alone by herself to sing without any audience. Who the hell she think she are ? Mother Teresa? She doesn’t live here with us in Romania, where gipsies are thriving… Ofcourse are many poor gipsies in this country, but also exist poor Romanians who doesn’t steel, who doesn’t beg. The problem with the gipsies is that they are aloud, they cry all the time about extremism, about racism. As we all know, in other parts of Europe the gipsies are burned if they rape or steal. In this country they are put to jail, where they belong and where they stay for a short period of time, then they run in other country and scream about discrimination. There was no gipsies at the concert, they enjoy another kind of music called “manele”, a mixt between bollywood music with oriental rythm. If she is so concerned about gipsy’s life, why don’t she just adopt (adopt = buy) some gipsy children and take them with her in Europe. They will spoil her sensible image for good.
I will throw away my audio CD with Madonna, and probably it will be picked up from garbage from a gipsy and he will put it at the rear mirror from his stealing car.

]]> Comment on Why do people write blogs ? – an open discution about the blog phenomenon by adrianbalan http://adrianbalan.wordpress.com/2007/03/29/hello-world/#comment-77 adrianbalan Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:13:58 +0000 #comment-77 Nice questions as an answer ... and terribly sad questions :( Maybe blogs keeps us from leaving in a real life ... or maybe it just takeing us from this real world and bring us in the virtual world ... who knows if in 50 years the virtual world won't be more "real" than the phisical world ? And about knowing that someone else already did everything you might create ... it was the same before the "internet" age :) Anyway ... quite sad ... Nice questions as an answer … and terribly sad questions :(

Maybe blogs keeps us from leaving in a real life … or maybe it just takeing us from this real world and bring us in the virtual world … who knows if in 50 years the virtual world won’t be more “real” than the phisical world ?

And about knowing that someone else already did everything you might create … it was the same before the “internet” age :)

Anyway … quite sad …

]]> Comment on Why do people write blogs ? – an open discution about the blog phenomenon by Stefan Thiesen http://adrianbalan.wordpress.com/2007/03/29/hello-world/#comment-76 Stefan Thiesen Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:52:26 +0000 #comment-76 Some of the reasons have been mentioned. Lonelyness. Marketing. An attempt to transcend the own perceived meaninglessness - the overwhelming pointlessness in life. Unfortunately when millions are blogging one is just another anonymous part of a huge anonymous mass of faceless individuals with a few outstanding stars. Twitter is even worse than blogging. Often it seems to me that everyone is connected, which results in a witches brew of opinion and information leading to a dilution of quality and facts so deep and profound that ultimately the entire web becomes questionable. What is it for? Does it enhance our life or does it merely keep us from living? And does it have a value to realize that for anything you do, no matter how clever and talanted you are, there is someone who already did it - and better so? Some of the reasons have been mentioned. Lonelyness. Marketing. An attempt to transcend the own perceived meaninglessness – the overwhelming pointlessness in life. Unfortunately when millions are blogging one is just another anonymous part of a huge anonymous mass of faceless individuals with a few outstanding stars. Twitter is even worse than blogging. Often it seems to me that everyone is connected, which results in a witches brew of opinion and information leading to a dilution of quality and facts so deep and profound that ultimately the entire web becomes questionable. What is it for? Does it enhance our life or does it merely keep us from living? And does it have a value to realize that for anything you do, no matter how clever and talanted you are, there is someone who already did it – and better so?

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