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Blog Binging Gorges the Net
Site Pixie writes "Most blogs are created by someone you don’t know, often about something you don’t care about, but that hasn’t stopped ‘blogging’ from becoming a remarkably ubiquitous phenomenon. There are even blogs about blogs such as The Blog Herald. It looks like everyone wants their fifteen minutes of fame online. Estimates put the number of blogs to be in the tens of millions, with several factors influencing the count, such as whether a blog is available for public or private consumption. Carl Bialik investigates the intricacies of counting blogs, and shows how blog indexing sites like BlogPulse and Technorati are bursting at the seams with thousands of new blog entries everyday."
Just another internet fad (though useful to some degree, if they're good).
But may I suggest rather than blog, we could call them blahgs, or even blah-blah-blahgs.
Carl Bialik investigates the intricacies of counting blogs, and shows how blog indexing sites like BlogPulse and Technorati are bursting at the seams with thousands of new blog entries everyday.
Technorati has always been slow for me and somewhat outdated. Google's Blogsearch, OTOH, seems fairly current and loads much faster.
I have only seen a few hits from Technorati (ending up at my site) but quite a few more coming from Google, starting only in the last 10 days or so.
Blogs are turning into the second spam of the internet. Some of them are legitimate and interesting, but a vast majority are not.
Beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master. -Anonymous
Blogs are glorified web pages are they not?
Just like podcasting used to be called --- audio files, duh!
My dictionary lists "binging" as an acceptable spelling, but it took me a couple of extra parses on this (not least because "gorges" can be a noun as well as a verb.)
I still don't, ya know, CARE, but at least I understand the headline.
Imagine if all this man-power was instead used to bring clean water to starving children.
I'm a crabby old guy resistant to jargon.
The word "blogs", esp. blogger (and all derived words) have rubbed me the wrong way from the beginning -- especially when we have words like "write" and "writer."
Thankfully, I've found this guy who really says it all better than I can.
http://www.thebricktestament.com/the_law/when_to_
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Ask me about my sig.
Apparently if I create a web page and upload some text to it, that's not a blog. But if I use an idiot proof content-management system to "type" my web page instead of "coding" it, I'm then creating a blog.
Once you start putting pictures and links on your blog, you're making a webpage...
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Good for you. That's super. You are a very special person.
So, since Slashdot is, technically, a blog, have we just witnessed the advent of a blog about a blog about a blog? I hope there's a base-case. :P
Heed your own advice, buddy.
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Ask me about my sig.
It's really hard to measure blogs from a number of angles. Everyone always claims that your data is biased and there's still debate over what a 'blog' actually is... Feedburner is in a good place to measure blogs. I blogged about their stats last week.
There's also a lot of debate on the quality of various Blog search engines such as Technorati, Feedster, and IceRocket. I'm thinking of creating a meta indexer which simply monitors 100 real blogs at 1-5 minute intervals and then determines how quickly the blog search engines index them.
I'd love help if anyone's interested. I just don't have much time......
The proxy at work blocks that site as "Tasteless". I'll just have to pretend I read TFA.
Ten years ago, people called blogs homepages.
"Blogs" are in reality just easy-to-setup homepages. Without the geeks/nerds making it easy for people to set things up with sites like Blogger.com, blogs wouldn't be as popular as it is today. Many bloggers today can't even write a line of HTML.
I maintain a site run via WordPress, that publishes an RSS feed. However, I don't use it to write about my (uninteresting to most of the universe) day to day life. Rather, I write semi-technical articles about subjects people might be interested in.
No doubt this is lumped in with the "blogs". However, it's just an extension of what I've done for years, but now I don't have to write static HTML pages and FTP them around. I using weblog software as a content management system and RSS to let people know when I've "published" something. Comments on the system allow me to get feedback and questions that everyone can see, rather than have me privately answer the same thing 10 times from my Inbox.
I would state that this categorically isn't a "blog", just a more useful incarnation of what people have been putting on the web for years. I'm pretty sure many other "blogs" are like mine (heck, looking at my RSS list, 99% will be better).
The internet has always been full of garbage (or, more PC'ly, "stuff I'm not interested in"). Just ignore it if you don't like it, and focus on the stuff you do like.
I agree it is hard to count blogs....please see my blog for more information.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
"Most blogs are created by someone you don't know, often about something you don't care about, but that hasn't stopped 'blogging' from becoming a remarkably ubiquitous phenomenon.
Most web pages, emails, usenet posts, instant messages, SMSes, books, magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, and indeed, spoken words are created by people I don't know, often about things I don't care about, and that hasn't stopped any of them from becoming remarkably ubiquitous.
I don't understand why people think blogging is different from any of the above.
It looks like everyone wants their fifteen minutes of fame online.
That's a crass assumption. Most do it because they enjoy doing it. Some do it because they want to make money. Some do it because all of their friends are doing it. People have a lot of different reasons. I seriously doubt that "fame", even fifteen minutes of it on the web, is a real motivator for all but a tiny but vocal minority.
Don't become a regular here -- you will become retarded.
Blogging to me is like writing a public diary... Why ?? Why post your thoughts to have the world scrutinize ? Concider the following. your not the smartest person in the world, so you go ahead and publicize said fact by advertising your inept thoughts to the world, so your boss, mate, motherinlaw, stalker can read it. I'm not being a troll just being a realist. I've actually read the blog of potential employees ( yahoo e-mail on resume => 360.yahoo.com/blah) and decided not to hire them when I saw just how lacking of sensible thought they were.
Also, water is wet. Food satisfies hunger.
Can we have more of these content-free statements of the blindingly obvious, please?
Slashdot subscribers, please stand up so that I can laugh at you.
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It was a typo. It should have read "Blog Bling Gizzorges tha 'netz"
Bah. "Blogging to be cool" is an oxymoron anyway. Blogging is what nerds do to communicate.
Hasn't anyone noticed that many blogs function almost exactly the same way BBS forums did, back in the dial-up days?
Sheesh, you could play a drinking game with that summary. One swig per mention of the word 'blog'. Lets see who passes out first shall we?
And I, for one, would like to wholeheartedly agree with the underlying meaning of it. :-)
I have a weblog. I don't use it to look for fame; I use it to communicate experiences with friends and family, with the added feature that others who want information about what it's like to have these experiences may read my weblog to do so.
:-(.) We called it "a development log." Why do new words have to be invented for something, especially when they are just the lazy contraction of existing words that work perfectly well?
I find it a lot more effective than getting on the phone with various family members and friends in different time zones and repeating the same stories over and over again. It allows those who are interested to find out what's going on when they want to, and allows me to communicate any updates when I want to.
And I agree, the word "blog" is annoying, and, as far as I can tell, purely a media construct. Back in the day, when I was doing game development, I used to post a monthly development log on progress on the game. (Unforutnately, it's been lost to the mists of time - even the Wayback Machine can't get to it
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often about something you don't care about
But that's the point. You ignore those, I read the ones that talk about things you are interested in.
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"It's the same with websites. What's the problem? The freedom of speech can't be the sole domain of those with something interesting to say."
*The chronically dull rejoice!*
Why all the blog envy? We all did the same thing back in the day making webpages, link sharing and persistence against local re-installs where your shit is still there. Ppl just want a voice and they're tired of media filling that gap all generic like and catering to the vocal minority. Individualism or something - blogs about cats and stuff, yeah they're boring and wasteful but that's just what we've become. Deal with it, right, one day blogs will will be better?
Like several other people have stated, I don't really get the definition of a blog other than "an easy to use, idiot proof homepage".
I don't have anything against blogs but.... I don't have one and I don't read any. I know there are some useful blogs out there, but when I hear blog I still think of pimply-emo-kid-greg complaining about his mom not paying for his sex change operation.
Offtopic!!! wtf...
But Maddox already did such a great job for me. http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=ba nish
Seriously, the rise of blogs isn't really waht pisses me off, they are just personal websites basically. Nothing wrong with a personal website, I have one myself. Granted most blogs are really STUPID personal websites, but hey whatever. What pisses me off are all these "experts" who get all hot and bothered over blogs, liek it's something special. No it's not, it's a bunch of people standing on their little soap box. Humans love to talk, this is nothing new. Blogs are just their way of trying to reach a global audience, usually with very limited success.
Get over it.
they give people who like to bullshit a soapbox to stand on, without the possibility that they will ever be heard by anyone who matters/cares.
Wow, the submitter seems to think that blogs are worthless, yet it's a huge phenomenon, and seems puzzled as to why. I've seen this attitude before--it's common on Slashdot--but it's misguided. A weblog is simply someone posting their thoughts on a topic that interests them. It could be links to other sites, it could be software development, it could be graphic arts, it could be TV commercials, it could simply be what appear to be mundane details about daily life. The key is that you ignore what you don't care about. The mundane detail blogs are intended for family and friends (but could still be read by anyone who might want to). The graphic arts blogs are likely only of interest to other graphic artists. Slashdot-types might like software development blogs, Linux advocacy blogs, OS X blogs, and so on. There's no need to be cynical just because other people are writing about topics you have no interest in.
Why are people so worried about blogs corrupting the Internet, anyway? I don't understand the problem. If Google happens to turn up my blog in a search for something, and my listing is distracting people from finding "reputable sources", then how reputable could said sources really be? I mean, if someone's silly blog like mine has a higher pagerank than someone's site, then I feel like the problem is theirs, not mine. Seriously. You probably need to work on your site content, if a lowly personal blog can get listings ahead of yours.
And I speak of myself as an example only as example. Because I know full well my blog doesn't threaten the Internet in any way. There's more traffic in a ghost town. Mine is little more than a gripe-list, and way for my family to see I'm still alive without needing to call me.
If you hate blogs, then don't read them. But why do so many people feel they are polluting the WWW?
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Hmmm, posted the parent post, and immediately got modded "overrated", which is pretty fscking funny, since the post had not been rated. What fucktard ...... blahblahblah .... I'm sure a post like this'll assure no more points for long time to come.
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And this was a perfect example of what you'll usually find in a blog - which is my reason for asking to mod it informative. As for this post, you can mod it funny if you want, since my whole point is a joke in itself. Thank you
How are blogs any different from "personal web pages" (remember "home pages"?) I just wish they'd get better WYSIWYG editing and image uploading (no, I do not want to use Hello or imageshack-- I just want to drag and drop, or at worse, click Browse...) I do agree however, that the sheer number of blogs is a bit rediculous.
Google should think up a way to segregate the opinion-oriented blogs from the actual informative websites out there. The danger is that genuinely useful websites will be drowned out in whiney teenagers complaining about how much they hate everyone else. Or something, I don't read blogs much. Neither should you.
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Ideally, I'd want to see Microsoft FrontPage-like functionality totally within a web page. (Ahem, Bill, can you hear me?) Anyone know any open-source products that do website editing online?
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Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. --Nietzsche
According to Wikipedia, the world population as of 6/2005 is 6.45 billion. The democratic nature of blogging indicates that it is possible some day every single person on earth will have at least one blog, so the blog counting is unlikely to stop until it reaches 6.45 billion, that is, if some day all nations become democratic.
The "relevance" and "importance" issues mentioned by the Wall Street Journal article miss the point -- blogging is all about democracy and free speech. The human desire to self-express is unstoppable.
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Funny site. Guy goes off on blog'ish rant about how fugly blogs are, on his own ridiculously fugly blog page. Without apparent irony.
If Jesus wants me it knows where to find me.
yes, there are millions of pages of home made web flatulence...I have a few of my own. This is a transitional condition which the backbones and the ISPs should take as a warning that they need to beef up capacity. Some REAL bandwidth pigs already exist: voip, torrents of movies and audio etc. These are just the beginning of an era when everybody with a connection will have an abiding internet presence which will come to do for them on the internet what their physical presence does for them in their neighborhood and town: it will be the "place and the face" by which most of the world knows and contacts them. Get used to it. [and maybe, kinda like house taxes, we should be paying for the infrastructure directly so the bandwidth will be there even after everybody is using VOIP and streaming packet video of everything they might want to watch to every device they might want to watch it on...hiding the infrastructure costs in the ISP fees and cable fees may break down when "bandwidth too cheap to meter" is saturated]
And so what if you don't know or care about most of the bloggers and their topics? You don't know or care about most of the people on this planet as it stands now so what's new here? You found the people you like some how or other and you meet them when it suits you. Bloggers have been doing the same for years with blogrolling, Technorati and other affiliation-discovery mechanisms and the 99.99% they have no use for, well, they just don't go to that corner of the World Wide block party.
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It would be interesting to know how many people don't blog for fame-- blogging for personal or practicle reasons. Quite honestly, a blog is often better than a notebook. You can update your blog from any computer. Blogs are hard to lose. They don't fall apart after months of use. And you can read a blog anywhere on the internet.
I have four personal blogs just for that reason-- a wine blog because I have problems remember that great wine I had last year, a photo blog because it's easier to blog photos than it is to email them to friends, a house maintenance blog because damned if I can remember the last time I replaced the furnance filters, and a generic personal blog.
I don't consider this "blog spam" I don't hype or advertise them. Yes they are public, but it's easier to have a public blog, than a private blog for a dozen or so people. And, they are just so damn convienent.
My corporate firewall blocks anything slightly resembling a blog or higher.
Now that doesn't piss me off because I can't go read a bunch of morons thoughts on things that don't concern me, that pisses me off because normal people, who write articles about things that do concern me (day-to-day programming solutions/concepts) are switching over in droves to "blogging" their articles and ideas. So when I google about a particular c# or java problem I am having, and out of the top 10 results on the page 7 of them are posted to some damn blog site or in blog format, my #*$&#*$& corporate firewall won't let me get to the article.
What is wrong with a good old fashion article on a web page explaining how to get some new programming concept hammered out????
I'm out (from the Almost-a-blog-department)
Don't anthropomorphize computers: they hate that.
TV is a vast wasteland of crap, with a few great exceptions like Galactica and Six Feet Under.
The blogosphere is full of nonsense, self-referential mental masturbation, and useless blogrolls. Then there are blogs like Daring Fireball, The Long Tail, and WWDNK which are each compelling in their own way.
Spam, though, is 100% crap. In that 10% lies the difference.
Read the EFF's Fair Use FAQ
Therapists are now suggesting blogs as a replacement for the classic journal, since they can be searched far easier and could be shared, like discussion groups. Would GrokLaw count as a blog about law? Offtopic: what about patenting the use of blogs in mental patients?
I guess what they meant to say was "Blog Binging Engorges the Net"? As in bloats it, makes it bigger?
The term "editor" must mean different things 'round here...
I used to be bored by people who became outraged at /. editors for screwing up this or that. But this particular occurence really is pretty pathetic.
This 'news' was submitted by "site pixie". Oh look - he has a website! We can go there and then be derisive of him! Oh wait - site pixie isn't a person at all - it's a service that allows you to transcend inane blogdom with inane flash animations! A person who doesn't have anything to say is neither terrible nor uncommon. A person who has nothing to say and demands your attention while he says it, however, is offensive.
This wasn't 'interesting' or 'news', but that's not a big deal.
It was hypocritical and self-serving, and for those reasons it shouldn't have been posted.
Why do new words have to be invented for something, especially when they are just the lazy contraction of existing words that work perfectly well?
So they can be made into verbs. Try these:
"I'm going to post something on my development log"
vs
"I'm going to blog"
Same meaning, but catchier.
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Now for the tech diss. The blogger has no idea what he is doing. Tell me stupid blogger, what is a C struk? What is a PERL registered expression? WHO is Linux Torvalds? You do not know. Sadly. All you know is your cats, and maybe what you had for lunch, and how to link to your frends. Well, try getting a girl with THAT. Ha ha I laugh at you.
Now sad bloggger. If you'll excuse me, I have to go back to better activities than thinking about you, such as reading Slashdot and making some karma that is actually WORTH something, not stupid PageRank for my BLOG. If you see me on the street (I am the one in the pimp ALL YOUR BASE tshirt) go the other way. Do not look. Do not linhger. Go home and write about your FEELings and live the mack programming to the /. crowd and see who wins the girls.
Dys
which is almost the ur-blog.
e-quips (it was my confirmation word, so I neologised it)
hmmm brings back a rather vivid memory of a recreational walk in the Falklands that went slightly wrong (was stationed there in 1983 at RAF Stanley). We were enjoying our walk when we came upon this fence... and facing away from us on this fence was a rusty sign "Perigas Minas"..."Danger Mines"... the next few hours were rather tricky getting the rest of the group out of that minefield...
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
In other shocking news, millions of people keep diaries!
HOLY COW who knew?
Can we please get some "stuff that matters" now?
is competition good, or is duplication of effort bad?
paul and storm (singing group) have a funny blog. "Because What We Think Is Important Enough To Publish". Its mainly to support there musical efforts with food and tv reviews..
paul and strom
But all parodies aside, blogs should be about something, not just narsicistic ramblings.
http://auotoblog.com/ is quite good, especially during car shows.
The term 'blog' may be new, but the concept is very, very old in computer terms. How is blogging any different from posting on a newsgroup or a pre-internet bulletin board? Oh yeah the web interface, that's right.
That's good stuff. I think it needs to be blogged. (Or is that "blogued" in the Queen's English? TrackBack: No, it is not.)
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s/blog/web page/ in 1994. Now it's just that you have nontechnical people posting useless crap on web pages instead of only those who learned a little bit of HTML and how to ftp a page to their ISP's web server.
You make it sound as if most bloggers are wasting their own and everyone else's time. Sure, that's probably true, but what the hell, man? Don't you make your living off people you don't know providing free content for your blog here? If Bill Gates said something like, "Most OSS programs are created by someone you don't know, and often do something you don't care about, but that hasn't stopped 'coding' from becoming a remarkably ubiquitous phenomenon. There are even programs about coding such as CVS. It looks like everyone wants their fifteen minutes of programming fame," it'd probably make you a little aggrivated, no? Have mercy on the 'upstarts,' o high and mighty Taco.
Hmmm....blog....a place where someone (sometimes several people) make entries about subjects that interest them.....and people usually make comments about the entries....I just realized something....Slashdot is a blog!!!
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I don't know about other people, but for me the word 'blog' stands for disreputable load of crap published by some yahoo who probably has no idea what he/she is writing about, which manages to be even less reliable than mainstream media is already.
The fact that CNN now has a blog segment makes me want to vomit.
Personal blogs are even worse, as if you're so pretentious to think that anyone gives a crap what your mood is, or what flavour of ice cream you ate today.
Ah, "Redundant" -- the choice of people who don't know jack shit about moderating like grown-ups.
Most websites are created by someone you don't know, often about something you don't care about, but that hasn't stopped 'web publishing' from becoming a remarkably ubiquitous phenomenon. There are even websites about websites such as Google. It looks like everyone wants their fifteen minutes of fame online. Estimates put the number of websites to be in the tens of millions, with several factors influencing the count, such as whether a website is available for public or private consumption. Carl Bialik investigates the intricacies of counting websites, and shows how website indexing sites like Google and Delicious are bursting at the seams with thousands of new Website entries everyday.
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I hate euphemisms.
Let's stop calling these things blogs (a word which was probably invented by a corporate whore with too much time on his hands), and start calling them what they have always been called. It's a f*cking journal that's readable by the public.
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#include "frickin_lasers.h"
I think, actually, one of the reasons people mod "overrated" and "underrated" is because it's a way to mod numerically without having to choose a description that doesn't fit. The mod probably thought that it was a generally bad post, though not flamebait or trolling.
Also, why can't a post at it's unmoderated default rating be overrated or underrated?
Procrastination -- because good things come to those who wait.
My problem with google blog search is also its virtue. It treats the blog world as a flat surface, with all blogs being of equal importance. If you want to search for some high frequency keyword like, say, "Katrina", the results are totally useless. But if you have a very specific post you want to find like, say, "tech ronin backpack" it is a killer tool. (And yes, I like that I can search for and find posts in my blogs using google, but I can't with technorati.)
It also doesn't help that it only lists results in chronological order -- at least with google news you can choose between relevance and date order. Pimping the post-of-the-minute reinforces the worst part of blogging -- the dreaded "first post" idiocy where masses of bloggers chase the meme-of-the-moment instead of taking a longer, more thoughtful view.
Two well argued sides of the issue, IMO.
Blogs are the modern day replacements for the "My Homepages" of the 1995-1998 era...
...except for the looping MIDI file, the obligatory "Page Under Construction" hard hat image, and the animated paper-folding,sliding-into-stamped-envelope,landin g-in-mailbox "e-mail me" GIF.
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, START
Most blogs are created by someone you don't know, often about something you don't care about, but that hasn't stopped 'blogging' from becoming a remarkably ubiquitous phenomenon.
%s/Most/Nearly all/g
%s/often/almost always/g
Two comments, stating opposite viewpoints, both modded insightful? But, if they are both insightful, how do I know which one is MY opinion?
Slashdot, oh slashdot, why hast thou forsaken me?
I've got a neat Essay Blog online. Currently only two Essays in there, but I like to take quality over speed ;-), so I don't feel to bad about it. ... I am a Designer, but condsidering it only took me 15 minutes to modify the template and have it blend that way ... the quick ones allways turn out best, don't you think? Even Design can be just good luck sometimes. :-)
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I'm actually quite found of the design
Oh, and btw, it runs on Pivot. Neat piece of Software that. Project link is on the page.
Help me rake up some hits and que your opinions below.
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This is my Blog. There are thousands of others, but this is mine.
Wow, I remember when I was a teen and the internet was the new big thing (granted, this was the early 90's and the internet wasn't new then, but...)
Everyone was saying how great it would be when everyone was able to easily create and share information.
People, this is what we wanted, and it's pretty much here. This is a good thing. All we need now are better and better ways of sorting & indexing the information being created and shared.
I've always found it amazing how many people honestly have no idea that no one gives a crap what they have to say.
The NY Times, Philadelphia Inquirer and San Jose Mercury News all announced staff layoffs last week. Where do you think those folks are going? To the Web, to eat their former employers' collective lunches. Lots of these folks have real expertise, and are bringing their contacts and rolodexes with them.
I speak from experience. I took the plunge in 2000. I was the computer-assisted reporting director at a daily newspaper that was clueless about the future of the web, and unwilling to invest in the basics (e-mail for repoters ... doh!). So I left to write for technology sites, and have been doing it ever since.
RichM
Data Center Knowledge
Oh right, I thought it was a corruption of the word "pinging". Especially since BlogPulse and Technorati seemed to be connected to this gorging of the net somehow.
amen to you. honestly. amen.
the so-called "problem" really is a delusion of outsiders.
the slashdot excerpt demonstrates these delusions quite well:
"Most blogs are created by someone you don't know, often about something you don't care about, but that hasn't stopped 'blogging' from becoming a remarkably ubiquitous phenomenon."
Wrong. if you specify an individual, and present them with every blog on the planet, the person probably won't care about the majority of the blogs. but crucially, if you specify any given blog, the chances are extremely high that at least SOMEBODY will be interested in it. You can say "nobody cares" ad nauseum. it's arguable whether or not anybody cares, but the point is, the bloggers don't care whether anybody cares.
"There are even blogs about blogs such as The Blog Herald. It looks like everyone wants their fifteen minutes of fame online."
Who says anybody wants fame? not a SINGLE ONE of the great popular blogs i know ever had any pretensions about fame or attention or the spotlight. some blogs become big, others stay small. bloggers will blog, regardless.
humans like to communicate and to form communities with likeminded individuals. the only problems are these: how does one find the weblogs that will and loggers who will appeal to them? and secondly, when will the sensational detractors and knee-jerk "Nobody Cares What You Think!" peanut gallery get over it?
i've read blogs from all over the world. the internet has closed so many gaps of TIME and SPACE between people, i've absorbed peoples thoughts and ideas that previously i never would have had any contact with (or at least it would have been very difficult or limited). i'm speaking more generally about the internet as a whole, but the potential for human interaction and exchange is unprecedented in human history. weblogs are just the latest form that the planetary social cyberweb has taken.
somebody who posts random thoughts or pictures of their cat is doing the most passively expressive thing possible: they're not dictating anything to anybody, they're not demanding anything, they're just making their own existence manifest in cyberspace. (maybe someone will care, great, maybe the person just likes doing it, great, maybe nobody will care--ANY HARM DONE? no). on the other hand, the chorus of snobbery is pretty noxious in contrast. projecting that somebody is demanding attention or assuming "Everybody Cares About Me!" is just a means for putting-on a bunch of reactionary nonsense.
Actually, I spelt it as 'bingeing' in my original submission, but it was editied to 'binging'. In fact, I had no idea that 'binging' was an alternative spelling. You learn something new everyday.
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Most conversations are between people you don't know, often about something you don't care about, but that hasn't stopped 'talking' from becoming a remarkably ubiquitous phenomenon.
Just because something is mainly important only to those who know the people involved, doesn't stop it being a useful thing for those people, or have anything to do with how popular the phenomenon should be.
I can at least understand it when editors leave in typos out of laziness, but to go out of their way to introduce them seems egregious.
if u come to think..aint slashdot also a blog site..a successful and one of the most visited sites.. blogs are more of a community creating utility rather than any else..someone wants to talk about something..if u r interested thn join or else do your own talking..i dnt see how this simple thing bother some people..by calling it spam you are disregarding the fact that blog is personal thing and you are disrespecting the fact of freedom of speech(write).. i am starting to think..slashdot is becoming a place ppl just hv to be opiniated on every topic no matter what it means..we always need to hv two sides of the discussion..is it really necessary..???
And you aren't there yet?
What, did you start on foot or something from Australia?
Those who sacrifice security to condemn liberty deserve to repeat history or something. - Benjamin Santayana