在博客世界中，从政治到爱好人们无所不谈

 

From Politics to Hobbies, Individuals Take Their Views into the Blogosphere

在博客世界中，从政治到爱好人们无所不谈

 

Blogging by humorists, ordinary reporters and people who fancy themselves as political pundits² are an enthusiastic by worldwide community of web surfers.

 

John Dvorak, who writes about blogs for PC Magazine and is a blogger himself, says ordinary citizen are taking readily available software and  produce weblogs about everything from family travels to model-train collections. They are, in effect, quickly and inexpensively publishing their own online magazines.

 

Mr. Dvorak: Go to Google or one of the other online search engines. Type in 'model railroading blog.' Use the word 'blog' itself. You will get a listing of people who are writing about model railroading. When you go to a couple of them, they tend to point out other blogs about the same topic. It's almost like a world in and of itself -- which is why, I think, a lot of people don't know about blogs. It's almost its own universe.

 

Because Internet expression is uncensored, John Dvorak is careful to know some weblog content is hateful, profane³ -- even pornographic.

 

John Dvorak: But at the same time, there's so much good stuff in the blogging world, that it's well worth exploring. And everyone who gets involved with it, as a reader or someone doing the blogging, will find that they develop a list -- which many call a 'blog roll' – they are personal most favorite blogs that they'll go to like they would go to the New York Times in the morning.

 

Blogging began in the 1980s in California's Silicon⁴ Valley, as early Internet wizards shared technical information. Bloggers made headlines during the early stages of the war in Iraq, when journalists and U.S. service personnel shared their experiences on-line.

 

And it wasn't just Americans. A blogger who took the name Salam Pax - using the Arabic and Latin words for peace -- described himself as a 29-old Iraqi, living in Baghdad's suburbs.

 

Salam Pax: The radio plays war songs from the '80s nonstop. We know them all by heart. Songs saying things like 'We will be with you till the day we die, Saddam.

 

Media-watchers and bloggers wondered whether Salam Pax was a real person or a sneaky tool of Iraqi disinformation. A reporter at the online magazine Slate⁵ confirmed that Salam was, in fact, his translator when the reporter worked in Iraq.

 

These days, blogs routinely point out mistakes by the mainstream⁶ media. It war bloggers exposed controversial remarks about race relations by U.S. Senator Trent Lott. And sloppy⁷ research in a CBS television report about President Bush's service in the Air National Guard in the 1970s.

 

Mickey Kaus, who writes a political blog for Slate, says some political blogs get thousands and thousands of hits -- or virtual visits -- each day.

 

Mickey Kaus: Bloggers link to each other. They talk to each other in something that at least approximates a conversation. They bring people together and also bring the truth out fairly quickly.

 

Blogger Rebecca Blood recently on her blog, Rebecca's Pocket.

 

Rebecca Blood: Pulishing Rebecca's Pocket is more like speaking in front of a room full of people -- some of them trusted, some of them strangers -- and having every word you say recorded and catalogued for future random⁹ retrieval.

 

Glenn Reynolds - who teaches Internet law and laws at the University of Tennessee even though some people call  bloggering the new journalism¹⁰ – Mr. Reynolds notes that bloggers have no editors. That speeds the flow of information, but also opens bloggers to charges of carelessness and bias¹¹.

 

Professor Reynolds: I've had editors who made my stuff better. And I've had editors who've made my stuff worse. So the absence of editors is a mixed bag. Blogs are all about taking your own thoughts and bouncing them off other people, and bouncing other people's thoughts off you. I suppose there's a sense in which everybody who says things in the public sphere is doing so out of vanity.

 

Blogs have gained such acceptance that many newspapers, magazines and broadcast and cable networks now assign staffers to produce them on company websites. And the next generation of blogging has arrived, as well. All across the Internet, people are now posting mini-documentaries called "video blogs."

 

I am Ted⁸ Landphair.

 

注释：

pundit¹ [5pQndit] n. 博学者

enthusiastic [in7Wju:zi5Astik] adj. 热情的

blogger [5blCgE] n. 博客

profane [prE5fein] adj. 亵渎的

pornographic [7pC:nE5^rAfik] adj. 色情的

Silicon Valley 硅谷

wizard [5wizEd] n. 向导

sneaky [5sni:ki] adj. 卑鄙的

disinformation [dis7infE5meiFEn] n. 故意的假情报

controversial [7kCntrE5vE:FEl] adj. 有争议的

CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System)（美国）哥伦比亚广播公司

approximate [E5prCksimeit] v. 近似,

Tennessee [7tene5si:] n. 田纳西州

acceptance [Ek5septEns] n. 承诺

1 pundit   

n.博学之人；权威

参考例句：

• Even the outstanding excellent graduate will learn constantly if he likes to be a pundit.即使最优秀的结业生，要想成为一个博学的人也要不断地研究。
• He is a well known political pundit.他是一个著名的政治专家。

2 pundits   

n.某一学科的权威，专家( pundit的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The pundits disagree on the best way of dealing with the problem. 如何妥善处理这一问题，专家众说纷纭。 来自辞典例句
• That did not stop Chinese pundits from making a fuss over it. 这并没有阻止中国的博学之士对此大惊小怪。 来自互联网

3 profane   

adj.亵神的，亵渎的；vt.亵渎，玷污

参考例句：

• He doesn't dare to profane the name of God.他不敢亵渎上帝之名。
• His profane language annoyed us.他亵渎的言语激怒了我们。

4 silicon   

n.硅(旧名矽)

参考例句：

• This company pioneered the use of silicon chip.这家公司开创了使用硅片的方法。
• A chip is a piece of silicon about the size of a postage stamp.芯片就是一枚邮票大小的硅片。

5 slate   

n.板岩，石板，石片，石板色，候选人名单；adj.暗蓝灰色的，含板岩的；vt.用石板覆盖，痛打，提名，预订

参考例句：

• The nominating committee laid its slate before the board.提名委员会把候选人名单提交全体委员会讨论。
• What kind of job uses stained wood and slate? 什么工作会接触木头污浊和石板呢？

6 mainstream   

n.（思想或行为的）主流；adj.主流的

参考例句：

• Their views lie outside the mainstream of current medical opinion.他们的观点不属于当今医学界观点的主流。
• Polls are still largely reflects the mainstream sentiment.民调还在很大程度上反映了社会主流情绪。

7 sloppy   

adj.邋遢的，不整洁的

参考例句：

• If you do such sloppy work again,I promise I'll fail you.要是下次作业你再马马虎虎，我话说在头里，可要给你打不及格了。
• Mother constantly picked at him for being sloppy.母亲不断地批评他懒散。

8 ted   

vt.翻晒，撒，撒开

参考例句：

• The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
• She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。

9 random   

adj.随机的；任意的；n.偶然的(或随便的)行动

参考例句：

• The list is arranged in a random order.名单排列不分先后。
• On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查，发现肉变质了。

10 journalism   

n.新闻工作，报业

参考例句：

• He's a teacher but he does some journalism on the side.他是教师，可还兼职做一些新闻工作。
• He had an aptitude for journalism.他有从事新闻工作的才能。

11 bias   

n.偏见，偏心，偏袒；vt.使有偏见

参考例句：

• They are accusing the teacher of political bias in his marking.他们在指控那名教师打分数有政治偏见。
• He had a bias toward the plan.他对这项计划有偏见。