Will, I think there is much to be celebrated about blogging but, as you must be aware, it is also the souce of some of the most blasphemous rumors in the history of mankind as well as some of the most mean-spirited sluirring of other people.
I suppose the best definition of "good" blogging is: When it agrees with your already-established point-of-view, it is serious good blogging!
Blogs are also a source of some of the poorest writing that wouldn't pass muster in a fifth grade classroom. It is held up as truth when it is simply an opinion. I've already discounted the opinions of our so-called leaders. They have proven themselves unfit to serve. I soo almost as much boviation among those wqho oppose them. In promoting their cause, they, too, often get lost in the wonders of their own egos.
I believe that the democratic institution of blogging is important, but not moreso than quality journalism, well-crafted fiction and elegant prose between the covers of a book or the sheets of a magazine.
As for blogging about the environment, there is never enough vigilance in overseeing what we, as a single species, in our power, can do to the environment ... both good and bad.
Many people, in "keeping it green," however, waste more of our precious resources doing so than some of those who are the so-called profligate wastrels. All the mail I've received about "keeping it green" uses paper, gasoline to deliver the ink, the ink itself, as well as feul expended delivering milions of missives. Does it save more than it expends? I have no answer.
The world is complex and everyone likes to think that it was put here for his or her exclusive use. Even those of us who use WiFi, are expending resources. Somebody is powering it up!
I tend to put all theory in one bucket: Theory is common sense expressed in language that is neither common, nor does it necessarily make sense.
