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Originally posted by Undertoad
But that's pretty presumptuous.
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Bullshit. Well, OK, yes, you're right, it IS presumptuous. But come on, the whole blogging phenomenon is based on nothing if not on presumption. It's based on the idea that all of us wing nuts sitting around nattering on our computers can write stuff just as interesting (if not necessarily more accurate) as what the established Pundictocracy puts out. Hell, even I've considered starting my own blog (called, oddly enough, "Punditocracy"), and I'm a self-proclaimed bubble resident. 20 years ago if a person had self-published a zine devoted almost exclusively to his or her own musings and opinions, with an occasional excerpt from somebody else, it would probably have been considered the height of arrogance and self-absorption. Now, everybody's doing it.
If you don't want to set yourself up with a blog, fine. But don't stifle your impulse to do so because of some sense of modesty. I guarantee you, you wouldn't be any more pretentious than any of the other blogs out there, and probably less so than many.