Could someone explain Blogs to me...

[Jeunemaitre]

...and help me understand if it's something beyond a individualistic egocentric whine-fest?  Certainly the few that I've been invited to view fall into that category; it seems that everyone is sufficiently world-important enough to consider their sniveling worthy of public scrutiny.

The thing I don't understand is the few blogve journal pages where the host invites the dregs of the web to comment on the content of the day's rant. This is the epitome of judging oneself to be important to the world. The problem is that this attention seeking is successful, in that anyone can provoke a reaction by pushing the right buttons, and the host simply needs to throw in the right buzzwords to give the viewers a need to comment. It reminds me: I can't remember what book it's in, but I think it's one of the Hitchhiker’s Guide series where Zaphod survives the machine designed to give you perspective on your place in the universe (causing the head of everyone who experienced it to explode) because he's actually in a highly detailed, self-contained universe that is in fact centered around his existence.

If you invite people to a party, you can convince yourself that they've come to see you. Doesn't mean it's true, but you can think that way if you want to.

edit: SGP errors