Blogs need to be about something and not be in the tiresome business of re-blogging others' effort. Which is as good enough a reason not to have a blog as it is to have one.
But something changed today which inspired the beginning of another blog.
Today, Michael Jackson's funeral is to be broadcast live on the Internet. The expectation is that this will grind the Internet to a halt as people tune in, rather like they did around their televisions on so many other culturally significant events, so many other times throughout history.
You could say that the fact that so many people have gathered to watch it online is emblematic of the age we live in, the new digital age that so many people harp on about, but frankly it's no different to crowding around that home made wireless my father bangs on about building sometime after the war. We just sit around different things these days.
Now to the point of another blog post, indeed another post about Michael Jackson...
This is actually the end of something more than just the worlds most famous pop star. It is in fact the the last culturally significant event from a non-digital world.
With the exception of some well reported cases, we didn't really hear about Michael for a few years. In fact I read that before his death he only had 80 000 fans on Facebook (confirm tomorrow). This will never happen again. No longer will an event be so un-touched by digital.
Cultural significance cannot exist without digital any longer. Cultural significance is what I am interested in. Cultural significance is what this blog is about.
So with my flag in the ground, the job is now to qualify this. And I will leave that for tomorrow as I am off home to watch C4 news on my telly.
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