bloggers

[egypturnash]

I never cease to be amazed at how self-important people who do the blog thing can be. There's a lot of recycled dotcom.bubble excitement they throw around about how it's the future of media and discourse and blah blah blah; to me it really tends to look like all noise and no content.

Case in point: this little essay on how oh so cool a permanant link top a particular entry in the archives is. Geez. It's just a rather obvious enhancement of functionality that kinda comes along free when you move from a naïve add-text-at-the-top-of-the-page-and-cut-old-ones-out mechanism to actually keeping the entries in a database as unique entries.

This sort of self-involved pomposity is why I don't like to go surfing the 'blogosphere' - or whatever atrocity of a coined verb surely involving some form of the word 'blog' is appropriate. So much empty masturbating over how important they are.

Comments

[laturner.livejournal.com]

There are very few blogs that I would read, LJ friends are so much more convenient. I would assume that a blog is more than just a rambling journal, but a lot of them are just like Livejournal on their own sites.
I don't get the point.

[markpasc.livejournal.com]

I don't get the point.

Of a fast LiveJournal? RSS gives you a friends list for the rest of the web. Please forgive me for linking to mcgroarty's here (http://www.mcgroarty.net/inkfeed/), built with free software, and the OS X-only reader NetNewsWire (http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/), leaving so many readers (http://dmoz.org/Reference/Libraries/Library_and_Information_Science/Technical_Services/Cataloguing/Metadata/RDF/Applications/RSS/News_Readers/) unmentioned.

But sure, convenience.

[markpasc.livejournal.com]

I don't find that so. The permalinks thing isn't even in the top 100 things people are discussing (http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/hotlinks.html) (or these top 40 (http://www.daypop.com/top/), though it has a few other weblog-related links). The first weblog post I saw about this (http://aaronland.info/weblog/archive/5079) is as derisive of it as you are.

Webloggers all talk about weblogs because that's the only thing we have in common. Talking about anything else gets you pigeonholed (http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/10/28/211050/43).

[neillparatzo.livejournal.com]

*grin*

In addition to the "never talks about anything but blogs" angle, I've also noticed that there's a tendency for people running their own blogs to consider themselves intrinsically "above" LiveJournal.

To which I say: Okay! Yes! You're above us! We're not worthy to read you.