a blab by idle

I have a very short screed posted on gourmet.truegeek.org ruminating on the viability of Web 2.0 in that particular market segment. I suppose this ties into my "what's the point of blogging" insecurity, which respondents such as j.b. repudiate by their actions every so often, but I still wonder if I need to re-evaluate my focus in the larger context and truly approach this more as a business venture (at least in method of attack), rather than just constantly throwing pasta posts on the wall and seeing what sticks. (Which feels like "depressingly little" most of the time.)

Thanks to digital rights management: Defective by Design. I've put the ubiquitous button on the sidebar and am touting their sincerely good and noble efforts here. Of course, like all the other bourgeois armchair revolutionaries, I'm not actually getting off my duff and doing anything about it; I simply mumble about "I don't buy DRM'd music even though I use an iPod and iTunes" and make menacing faces when people bring up RIAA and the MPAA. It reminds me of a sticker I saw once on a lampost at college: "ISO: Changing the world from a safe distance," a mock of our campus' chapter of the International Socialist Organization, which was forever making lots of noise about causes and rights of the workers but seemed to be notably absent in their hard-core follow through.

Should I be out there fighting for causes like I did 20 years ago? Absolutely. However, I've come to understand what Billy Joel meant when he talked about finding "that just surviving was a noble fight". So at least I can support the good causes verbally (and financially, once I'm no longer in deep debt) and try to inspire the younger ones to take to action. I just hope that's enough….