He said: 'Any fool can blog! Any fool cn twitter!'

My friend, a great reader, read my last INSIGHT blog and said with a bored yawn: 'Not bad. But I'm sick of the whole business. Any fool can blog! Any fool can twitter! Blogging has made almost everyone a writer. And most of them seem to be trying to turn the English language into bird droppings, piles of it, enough to build huge islands of guano on the oceans of the internet.'

Well! Not a bad turn of phrase. I could only smile back at him. After all he was a good long-time friend. And a great reader. And he had never dropped a single drop of anything on the oceans of the internet! I said: 'Look, they're not trying to produce literature. But surely bloggers are strengthening the idea of freedom of speech around the world.'
(For INDIA INSIGHT stories see other blogs here and www.myspace.com/india_realities i.e. india underscore realities) My latest at Myspace is: Many GREAT WALLS divide today's India.