Linking The World Under A Blog

When we turn on our personal computer, the daily routine is foremost the same for scores of people: access to your Explorer’s homepage which for many is Google, New York Times, El Tiempo, or any type of search domain. You go on and read the first article you encounter, which curiously is about violence in Kabul, Afghanistan due to its holding of elections on Thursday. While reading the article you read through a name you don’t quite have the knowledge of: Ahmad Zahir Faqiri. Therefore you will go onto lovely Google and research about that unfamiliar name, and most likely stumble unto Wikipedia or any recent blog that talks about the issue concerning that man and the upcoming Afghan elections.

While reading blogs we encounter other links, and that links lead us to further links. Sooner or later, after digging deep into the Web, we realize that only 30 minutes earlier we were reading about Afghan elections and now we are reading about the American Revolution. “It's not only that the links are hard to transpose into print. It's that the whole culture of linking—composing on the fly, grabbing and posting whatever you like, making weird, unexplained connections and references—doesn't sit happily in a book”. The internet doesn’t have boundaries and its essence is intangible, therefore it can’t be touched, felt or even summarized. We can’t summarize the internet into three words as we do with a book, we can’t even pretend to précis the everlasting content of a blog. Even less with links included, because that means that reading a blog is different for every person in the intangible world. For example, every living person is born practically the same way, but they don’t behave like robots and live the same way, the trace life’s path according to the decisions they make. Precisely, when reading a blog and follow a link, the link is like taking a decision, we nurture ourselves into another path, another blog, and another topic. Exploring beyond the words meanings is what a blog offers, it displays understanding only present to the reader, not its viewer.