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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."
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.
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.