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Joi Ito has an idealistic (and wrong) set of ideas about blogging:
To finally tie it into the discussion about technological determinism vs social constructivism, I think we need to be aware that we have an active effect on how the architecture of this technology evolves. I don't think we can yet "show the blogging world to be a just institutional structure", but rather we can try to determine what is just and strive to make the blogging world into something we feel is just. This requires us to dive into some of the questions that even Aristotle didn't answer. What is right? What is just? Hopefully the tools themselves will help guide this discussion, but rather than be nihilistic or deterministic, I think we should be actively involved in a dialog that best represents a consensus of our views. In order for this to be just, we must try be as inclusive as possible of everyone and on this I agree with danah. The tool is not yet inclusive. I think that blogs are right in many ways, but are far from right in many others. How can we try to make blogs as right and just as possible. I think that this is the question that faces us today.
Blogging and justice? Good gosh, this is the same ridiculous elevation that journalists give themselves. Blogging just is - whether a given blog is "right" or "just" depends on the author, not on the technology. The only thing to worry about is free expression - and there's not much on the technological side of things to deal with there. Sure, technology can be applied for good or ill. But that's the point - the application. It's the voices that matter, not how they got there.
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