Meta Blog Talk

I just finished reading at TechRhet an overly long thread about blogs. My reaction to the thread is nicely summed up by Jenny Edbauer in this post of hers. There's a crowd at TechRhet who push blogs as the next big thing that will make everyone a great writer. Maybe that's not what they're saying but that blogs will make writing more enjoyable. Or maybe they're saying a combination of the two. In any case there's a bunch of meta talk about blogs, just as there was with the emergence of personal computers, graphic user interfaces, word processors, listservs, networked writing environments, the WWW, Dreamweaver, MOOs, MUDs, blogs, just about every new technology except Instant Messaging, and most of what I've read there says IM is the next big evil influence on writing. Go figure.