Geoffrey Nunberg writes in Blogging in the Global Lunchroom:
Taken as a whole, in fact, the blogging world sounds a lot less like a public meeting than the lunchtime chatter in a high-school cafeteria, complete with snarky comments about the kids at the tables across the room. (Bloggers didn’t invent the word snarky, but they’ve had a lot to do with turning it into the metrosexual equivalent of bitchy. On the Web, blogs account for more than three times as large a share of the total occurrences of snarky as of the occurrences of irony.)
I like this analogy of blogosphere as high school cafeteria, though. It’s loud. It’s noisy. There’s a cacophony of voices. Of course, a bit less snarkyness and a bit more compassion would be nice (never mind my previous post, which was all snarky and no compassion).
