A recent news story demonstrates the problems involved in religious and political authorities trying to control bloggers.

Of note in this article is that the reporter points out that blogs have no guarantee of accuracy and are often self-indulgent and boring. Being mostly free in speech, bloggers have no one to provide oversight or demands for accuracy, integrity, and all those other things that make newspaper columnists squirm.

In case you have not been informed, a blog is not a trusted news source for anything. As with newspapers and other accounts, without corrboration, a blog is simply an online diary of experiences and thoughts. As no one except God (and maybe Zaphod Beeblebrox) has the gift of total perspective, blogs have no promises of anything.