I was just wondering how long it will take before corporate interests really start to catch hold of what blogs are and what they “signify culturally” as far as what I see as a shifting away from corporate information sources, to ones that have been created and maintained by just individual people. You know, how long before somebody gets like a blog sponsorship from a company, or is just on their payroll to write a blog that seems more or less normal, but subversively promotes certain products, companies or viewpoints. It’s hard to imagine what kind of form that would take, but I could see semi-decent writers being able to pull it off, without anyone expecting they were a corporate shil. Hehe. Who knows. Its like that thing I was saying from a couple weekends ago, where we claimed that kid Greg was really an AOL TimeWarner hologram, who was doing deep marketing and qualitative research. I feel like that sort of shit will really happen, you know? Maybe not for a long time, but as technology grows, and information becomes more pervasive. Its like, I already rely pretty heavily on Amazon.com’s system where it recommends books and music I might like, based on past customer preferences. Its like having a really knowledgeable good friend. I wonder when and how it will shift over into its next phase, of being an ACTUAL friend in some way shape or form.
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Let me just say, after spending a good portion of my day wading through the blogs of strangers, maybe corporations already HAVE bought everyone off and have already infiltrated the blog world as a means of deep-cover product placement. Cause so many of these are just so damn bland and uninteresting parroting of the same shit you get everywhere else. Maybe those holographic friends already exist inside people’s minds and just force them to spew out the standard brand-name take on everything all the time. Wouldn’t that be wild if big corporate psychologists/marketers knew all along, and have been intentionally building up autonomous complexes in our minds all along, which force us to mindlessly shop, and turn off our critical faculties according to pre-ordained cues? Honestly, I sometimes think this isn’t at all far from the truth.
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