The Problem With Blogs

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Good morning again. How’s this for starters: Blogs are ruining our culture and are a waste of time.

If you’re curious, read more in this provocative item from the Inman Blog calling into question the value of blogs (I guess that’s like a newspaper story about the decline of newspapers).

Story notes the new anti-blog book ‘The Cult of the Amateur,’ in which Andrew Keen ‘challenges the great democratization promise of Web 2.0. He concludes that the movement is a hairball of casual commentary and connectivity around celebrity, tech trends and the idiosyncracies of a small number of obsessive personalities. We are dubbed ‘enthusiastic monkeys.’ ‘

More from Keen: The explosion of blogs and user-generated Web content will cheapen culture and journalism -- this is what happens, he says, “when ignorance meets egoism meets bad taste meets mob rule.”

Well OK then. The Inman blog item goes further, and allows Real estate blogger Mike Agee to argue that blogs are a waste of time for real estate professionals.

Any enthusiastic monkeys want to weigh in on this?