Description of one of the blogs I visited “I am neither leftist nor rightist. I am a typist.”

So as the number of us bloggers typing away to glory scales new levels every day, methinks, what is it in this medium that the others lack, and why is the proliferation faster than a man rushing towards the loo on the verge of bladder-burst? (ah… a genuinely bad analogy… pat.. pat.. )

First of all, methinks it is the web. When I say web, it is not just the technology. It is the ease of use, ease of publishing and ease of feedback that makes the loop complete. Blogger for word; the carrot that makes even lazy-tashreefs like me to go blogetty once a many while. Halo-scan, shout boards, counters, profile viewers, template enhancers and a whole bevy of such niceties make life much easier and prettier.

But then me also realizes, it is not just the shift of a thought onto a byte and then onto a character and then onto the virtual… it is the need to shout out to be heard (and to shout out even if no one is hearing in particular) is the prime driver.

And then the veritable metamorphosis… Vlogs (video blogs), Mlogs (mobile blogs) and in a few months we will run out of alphabets to precede the ‘logs’. And then it will no longer be a log – or a record or listing of events and interesting happening. It will become a medium of information exchange and real time modification and updation. The precursor, I might conjecture, is already here. We call it Wiki.

An interesting observation: The internet, the web (i.e the hyperlinked spaced sitting above the net architechture), and now blogs are all indicative and have grown out of the single impressive factor of collaborative sharing of experiences. And the next generation of such collaboration is already nested deep in the ideas we don’t even realize are already a part of our lives. Linux, the quintessential case study on open source, is also one of the best examples of collaborative software. And then there is the big daddy of them all, Google. Their search improves as we visit a page more and more, Orkut grows as we add more friends, Blogger expands as you and me write more, and Google Answers is a site run by everyone who answers a question.

This incredible model made possible only due to the omnipresent connectivity and the hyperspace, and it has happened now. And I feel privileged to be a part of this silent revolution. I am not a baby-boomer loathing technology, nor am I a Gen-Z whiz kid who thinks Google is a given and doesn’t understand why the net is so unbelievable. I am mentally baked just right, with the understanding and the sense of awe in perfect balance. Bless the zeros and ones… and bless the future that drives our present making us goal-seek and fulfill our own Pygmalion prophecies.