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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday September 27, 2005 @05:38AM from the so-many-words-so-little-content dept.

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."

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how about calling them... by yagu · 2005-09-27 05:39 · Score: 4, Funny

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.
1. Re:how about calling them... by SlayerofGods · 2005-09-27 05:42 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Or at least mix it up a little.
  Hearing the word 'blog' 12 times in one summary is enough to make one's head explode.
  
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2. Re:how about calling them... by ikkonoishi · 2005-09-27 06:12 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Then you would probally hate this.
  
  This is one of my pet peeves.
Crabby Old Guy -- no blog by putko · 2005-09-27 05:44 · Score: 4, Funny

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.

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1. Re:Crabby Old Guy -- no blog by russellh · 2005-09-27 06:13 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Thankfully, I've found this guy who really says it all better than I can.
  
  It's good you don't feel the need to devote that kind of time and energy to harmless things you don't like... otherwise you'd be mistaken for a loser.
  
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Details of my blog by digitaldc · 2005-09-27 05:58 · Score: 4, Funny

I agree it is hard to count blogs....please see my blog for more information.

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People connect computers to the internet by g0at · 2005-09-27 06:01 · Score: 4, Funny

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.

-b

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Someone coined the term - Blogorrhea by melted · 2005-09-27 06:04 · Score: 2, Funny

And I, for one, would like to wholeheartedly agree with the underlying meaning of it. :-)
Re:Wasted man-hours by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-27 06:08 · Score: 3, Funny

Imagine if all the man-power being used to complain about people not bringing clean water to starving children was instead used to bring clean food to thirsty children.
Blogs just suck. by DysenteryInTheRanks · 2005-09-27 06:37 · Score: 4, Funny

I wish everyone who is writing a stupid blog, would stop. If we wanted to hear what you had to say, we would NOT have added the X factor to HTML (XHTML) and the C Secret Sauce (CSS) which is clearly intended for PROFESSIONAL WEB DESIGNErS, not you, stupid person, with your cats.
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
Shocking by eison · 2005-09-27 06:57 · Score: 2, Funny

In other shocking news, millions of people keep diaries!

HOLY COW who knew?

Can we please get some "stuff that matters" now?

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