At Globe of Blogs, you can search for blogs geographically. The great Evergreen State of Washington, it turns out, has more blogs listed with this indexer than any other U.S. states except California, Florida, Massachusetts and Illinois. Here's a link to Globe of Blogs' Washington State links. There are eight pages worth. Let's see what great undiscovered Washington State blogs lurk in the blogosphere. And how many are the dreaded: student diaries.

UPDATE 2/18: Downer. Yes, bloggers should know who they are, and not be afraid to let it show. But that's not the basis for a blog. Unless it is, unfortunately. Typical blog descriptions from Globe of Blogs' WA state links: "A half-Asian chick in Seattle;" "a gay boy in college;" "all about me and my daughter;" "daily mental meanderings of a geeky hyperactive vegan hippy girl;" and "personal Web log of a 20-something dealing with life."

Then there's "Lonely Latina--All About Me" (relationship drivel); someone else "yapping about stuff that you probably don't care about" (nailed that); another blogger "rambling about nothing" (ditto); "one Leatherperson's view on life and continual exploration" (not going there, thanks); the life of a 21-year-old's struggle for independance (sic)" (seen the movie); and a blog at lustyphonegirls.com. Plus blogs on knitting, promotional novelties, and how to be a Pagan Goddess (isn't that innate?).

YES, I actually looked at all of these, and more like them, via the Globe of Blogs WA links.

CONCLUSION: As with good 'ole Web sites, the free-form anarchy, indulgence and triviality of blogs is an inevitable outcome of free speech and technology. Where there's gold there's tin, too. And there are shortcuts to worthy blogs that reference the outer world, not just a tritely-expressed inner life. But who benefits from "rambling about nothing?" This isn't China, where we might actually need what I call "Trojan Blogs" to complicate matters for government Internet censors (see following item).

Posted by Matt Rosenberg at February 17, 2004 11:29 AM

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