You write: "Farber is mistaking energy for insight, prevalance for significance, and quantity for quality. He might almost have written that every morning he wakes up with a column to fill...and an abundance of free material with which to fill it, served right up onto his desktop by the RSS reader of his choice. Every lazy journalist's nirvana, in other words."

I've never been categorized as a lazy journalist before. And, I do fill my RSS reader with useful, insightful content, contrary to your statement. Some is deep and some is superficial, just like in real life. Maybe you need help in locating good content that just happens to comes from a blog. It's not a replacement for antecedent, pre-Web forms of content or commerce. As I have written, the lack of tools for navigating and absorbing the content and managing your attention is the problem.

Nobody said the blogosphere is noble or a replacement for face time.

"Bloggers, it very often seems, are all legends in their own minds; they commit arson every day in their imagination, burning down the previous day's lies and distortions. Worse still, so many bloggers suffer from what Albert Camus called "the sign of a vulgar mind," namely the need to be right.

Nice writing...you must get a lot of self satisfaction writing phrases like that, but it's vulgar in itself. You don't have to read my blog or anyone else's.

"Unfortunately insight doesn't reside in blogs any more than wisdom resides in Fortune cookies."

What does that mean?....that's just idiotic. You don't think blogs are chaordic?

You are right in one sense--blogging is just a medium, available to anyone with a connection, and you seem to be using it (is is a column or a blog?) and getting enjoyment out of spreading your own verbiage, demonstrating your cleverness, connecting blogs, chaordic, epiphanies, scuba diving, Web 3.0 and Beckett--and adding to the pile...