To the uninitiated, bloggers can seem narcissistic and slightly geeky, but by putting their lives online they're probably closer to the DIY utopian dreams of the early internet pioneers than any dotcom 'cash cow' can ever be.
In this article (which I found by accident whilst serching through the archives) on plasticbag is saying what I think about the internet and how it's developed. The "dotcom 'cash cow'" culture really blew out of all proportion. People strutting around shouting out that they were "web millionares". That's not how it should be. The web is not a business. It's a library, and a meeting place rolled in to one.
