About blogs and Thanksgiving

Hi, Taras!
Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day - your first, I guess, wasn't it?
This is just a quick note, as I'm rushing to get to work.
Was thinking about the pastor's comments that blogging was a pursuit of fame. I don't doubt that it is in many, perhaps most, cases. On the other hand, it can also be a wonderful "storage place" for one's thoughts and reflections (the same pastor would probably be in favor of "journaling", a popular practice among evangelicals). It can be a place to leave a "testament" for one's loved ones, and, in fact, not even let anyone know about it until... "then". And in fact, many "bloggers" blog in complete anonymity, so they are clearly not trying to get "known"; at least, they're not trying to achieve "name-recognition".
Ultimately, though, the "blog world" - like television, the nuclear bomb and fast food - is "there", it exists, "the cat is out of the bag" and the there's no getting the cat back in the bag, sermons or no sermons. So it's up to each person how to relate to it. Ironically, if everyone gets "famous" then no one will be famous, and perhaps blogworld will prove to be a great leveller. Again, when everyone is able, so easily, to get his or her name "up in lights", as the saying goes, then it doesn't mean anything anymore. Very few people could get their faces up on the big screen in the golden days of Hollywood. More, but still a limited number, could get their faces on the small screen in the golden days of television. In the golden days of the blog, everybody can get his "face" on the computer screen, and so... it's hardly "fame" anymore. Blogworld will less resemble the glowing neon marquees of Broadway, where the names of the chosen few radiate "fame", than it will resemble the sidewalks underneath the marquees, where millions of unknowns pass each other every day. We're still, relatively speaking, in the early days of infatuation with this novelty. It's going to settle into its place before long, however, and when it does, anyone who says, "Guess what - I've got a blog!" will be laughed at for his naivete, as much as if he had said, "Guess what! I've got a refrigerator!"
Well, those are my few short reflections on the pastor's fears about blogs. Then again, a pastor does need to have something to preach on, comment on, warn against, give the "biblical view" on - and every Sunday! So you can be sure that he will.... Not all the sermons will be equally momentous.
Ken