Depressing Perhaps but dont give up This future has a map drawn for us years ago by a reckless group of online pioneers In the early days of the web they sailed these waters and located all the treacherous shoals They got fired from their jobs found and lost friends and navigated celebritys temptations and perils  all long before the invention of social networking These pioneers the first wave of what we now call bloggers have already been where the rest of us seem to be going Before their tales scroll off our collective screen its worth spending a little time with them After all those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repost it 