Vox clamantis
The full Latin phrase is vox clamantis in deserto, a borrowing from the prophet Isaiah who in Chapter 40, verse 3, tells of a voice crying in the wilderness. To be more accurate, Isaiah’s voice is clamoring, but for many of us, the word ‘crying’ would in fact be more appropriate. And looking around at the Internet, the ‘wilderness’ would be more aptly described as a jungle.
Technorati, the Internet engine that searches weblogs, reported as of this month to have indexed 75 million blogs. That’s not counting the other search engines like Google, Yahoo and IceRocket. So it’s no wonder that somebody figured out the average readership for any given weblog by dividing the number of blogs by the number of people surfing the Internet and came up with a result of about 1. That average one reader of the average blog is probably the person who is writing it.
So how is one voice to be heard in this jungle?
For the purposes of this website-weblog, let’s hope that it’s the quality of the message. Not necessarily the quality of the content, but the quality of the writing itself. And if the writing can be improved, let’s hope that other messengers will share their thoughts in this interactive universe of the written word.
For an example of quality writing, even though the content may put some readers off (and delight others), we direct your attention to a new listing on our blogroll entitled, not coincidentally, vox clamantis.
– Sid Leavitt
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