Lovink refers to blogs as being a more modern version of the homepages that people used to create for themselves/their interests. I had never thought of blogs as being similar to personal homepages, but after it was brought up in Lovink's post, I can definitely see the similarities.
He speaks about blogs combining personal thoughts such as what has been going on in that person's life with things that they find interesting going on in the world. People are then able to easily write about these things even if they have no actual knowledge about them. The problem with this, Lovink says, is that blogs are inherently easy to find by others looking for information based on tags that a blog writer can associate with their post. If a blog writer writes a post with enough conviction, what they write could easily be interpreted as being factual by people who happen upon it after entering certain search terms.
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