::scr Blogging

[Greg McCarroll]

* Dave Hodgkinson (daveh@davehodgkinson.com) wrote:
> simon wistow <simon@thegestalt.org> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 03:44:48PM +0000, simon wistow said:
> > > I have to admit that I'm confused by this whole blogging phenomenon 
> > 
> > Sorry, let me put that in a slightly less verbose form ...
> > 
> > 
> > This whole blogging phenomenom really pisses me off - I really hate them and I
> > can't quite put my finger on why.
> > 
> > Anybody else feel like that? And if so, why?
> 
> Because diaries should be private?
> 
> Because it's a whole bunch of introspective whining?
>
> Because it's easier than actually writing something coherent and
> useful?
> 
> Because people write crap like this:
> http://www.moby-online.com/cms/viewalldiary.asp ?

Because people write them 365/366 days a year, instead of writing them
when they have something interesting to say?

   The exception that proves the rule (or somesuch) here is that I
   find the blogs of people who are at conferences fascinating but the
   rest of the time I'm really not that interested.

Because .plan files are so much better?

   Apart from all the .plan wars crap that when on with id,
   etc. Really .plan files are a great way to publish what you are up
   to at the moment. I don't use one. And anything that encourages
   people to use more applications on the Internet apart from the web
   is a good thing. 

Because a large percentage of the people who keep blogs are
egotistical twats?

Because large public virtual communities are really not as good as
forming proper (even virtual) communities where you have to work at it
and don't have to simply use your ready made blog, shared briefcase,
whatever?

Of course on the other hand they encourage people to publish more shit
to the steaming cesspool of the web, which means there is more content
and the more is good, it just means search engines (or more likely
peoples search engine skillz) need to improve.

Greg

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Greg McCarroll                                 http://217.34.97.146/~gem/