Mmmmm my favorite... diversity

Ever since I had a series of retitled Diversity Education courses in college, I have questioned if the people throwing around that word really have any clue what they are talking about. Are we talking about looking like a McDonald's commercial where you collect one of each to complete your set of friends, co-workers, leaders, etc. Or are we talking about making sure we all play fair. If we are talking about the latter, fantastic! That was the rigteous purpose of MLK Jr. and the original civil rights movement. If on the other hand we are talking about the former, well my head is already starting to hurt. Take this for example. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7160264/site/newsweek/ Here you will find an article on the male bias found in blogging. The complaint is that if the top 100 blogs are dominated by white males, then there must be racism holding back the other sites. The problem is that for many sites you are not really able to know what race you are dealing with. In fact I could put up a site and pretend to be of another race just for the fun of it. This is a counter article. http://nationalreview.com/comment/mac_donald200503300758.asp that challenges the wisdom of regulating our way to a diverse blogosphere. To my thinking this is the best arena for diversity, not simply racial, but intellectual diversity. Blogging is about ideas. They may be fun, thoughtful, or silly, but reallyblogs are just about ideas. Who is in the Top 100 is based on who reads. Good ideas will get good attention. I really don't care who you are, just present something I can ponder that challenges me and I will read you for it. Alright that's enough. I'm done.