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I usually don't mention other blogs here, even though there are a few friends' blogs I link to in my links page. I don't however, belong to some tight-knit ring of bloggers and I am continually striving for anonymity and ignorance (if that even makes sense...). Lately, though, there have been renewed efforts by a couple of friends at continuing and enhancing their blogging efforts. This would involve a new website (or blog host), a new design and, maybe, another language. Sparrows has set up shop at http://bloute.avesse.net/ and Wunderseun at http://ludipan.spaces.msn.com/. Personally I'll stick with this old cave or box or inner sanctum or whatever this site reminds you of, but I hope everyone finds their inspiration at their new base of operations!
Being curious and bored, I linked to some links of links from one of these sites and found a link to yet another person bitching and moaning about blogs with the cleverly entitled “Why I Hate Personal WebLogs”. Yay, a blog links to an anti-blog page! Irony! :-) Its all just HTML to me... no, seriously, everyone has a right to their own opinion. That is the internet's best and worse feature. Everything else is a subset of either the pro-view or the con-view, but both the pro and con co-exists, no matter who you are.
One of the first anti-blog sentiments I came across (barring the people who had, up to that point still, written it off as geek stuff), was this cartoon. That was funny and in my, perhaps slightly twisted view, done tastefully. Other people just complain and complain a lot. Anyway, here is my view on people who complain about blogs: people who complain about blogs are as part of a clique as people who have blogs. They are usually the people who are against everything that are popular. As with the piece of writing in question, I can go sit down and list every conceivable type of person who hates blogs as a negatively named group and elaborate on that, but I won't, partly because this is not what I'm trying to write here and partly because I'm not going to take part in their petty vendetta. Anyway, what I mean is this: think of the punks who originally started to rebel against The Establishment and yadda yadda yadda. They started out as radical rogues, but later they were joined by other people and, eventually, an entire sub-culture was formed. Now, in a certain mindset, I would be “cool” to become a punk. There are other examples, but the pattern is clear: rebels form their own pop group. When you speak out so completely subjectively and negatively about something like, for instance, blogs or 7de Laan, you are trying to impress someone. These people seek attention, just like many bloggers seek attention by inviting other people for a glimpse into their personal lives.
The internet's vices and virtues stand. Deal with it. I don't actively read other people's blogs (apart from a couple of friends') because I either find them boring and disappointing or they annoy me excessively. I've tried it, but 98% of the time it comes back to what I have just mentioned. I'm not saying that there aren't any good blogs out there, but I'm not going to spend my time finding and reading them.
And I don't expect anyone to feel any different about this blog. I do this purely for personal reasons and without any expectations. No-one will ever completely and truly understand why I do this or what it means to me. This website as a whole has become a hobby for me. And if you have a problem with that, then (to hell with freedom of speech), screw you. And not just for me, but if you attack anyone who wants to write or share or whatever they hope to achieve with their blogs.
The internet is a twisted place. The best way to deal with it is to stay away from twisted people (al be it bloggers, blog haters or apathetics). And that's up to you: no-one else is going to protect you (effectively, even if they try).
Being curious and bored, I linked to some links of links from one of these sites and found a link to yet another person bitching and moaning about blogs with the cleverly entitled “Why I Hate Personal WebLogs”. Yay, a blog links to an anti-blog page! Irony! :-) Its all just HTML to me... no, seriously, everyone has a right to their own opinion. That is the internet's best and worse feature. Everything else is a subset of either the pro-view or the con-view, but both the pro and con co-exists, no matter who you are.
One of the first anti-blog sentiments I came across (barring the people who had, up to that point still, written it off as geek stuff), was this cartoon. That was funny and in my, perhaps slightly twisted view, done tastefully. Other people just complain and complain a lot. Anyway, here is my view on people who complain about blogs: people who complain about blogs are as part of a clique as people who have blogs. They are usually the people who are against everything that are popular. As with the piece of writing in question, I can go sit down and list every conceivable type of person who hates blogs as a negatively named group and elaborate on that, but I won't, partly because this is not what I'm trying to write here and partly because I'm not going to take part in their petty vendetta. Anyway, what I mean is this: think of the punks who originally started to rebel against The Establishment and yadda yadda yadda. They started out as radical rogues, but later they were joined by other people and, eventually, an entire sub-culture was formed. Now, in a certain mindset, I would be “cool” to become a punk. There are other examples, but the pattern is clear: rebels form their own pop group. When you speak out so completely subjectively and negatively about something like, for instance, blogs or 7de Laan, you are trying to impress someone. These people seek attention, just like many bloggers seek attention by inviting other people for a glimpse into their personal lives.
The internet's vices and virtues stand. Deal with it. I don't actively read other people's blogs (apart from a couple of friends') because I either find them boring and disappointing or they annoy me excessively. I've tried it, but 98% of the time it comes back to what I have just mentioned. I'm not saying that there aren't any good blogs out there, but I'm not going to spend my time finding and reading them.
And I don't expect anyone to feel any different about this blog. I do this purely for personal reasons and without any expectations. No-one will ever completely and truly understand why I do this or what it means to me. This website as a whole has become a hobby for me. And if you have a problem with that, then (to hell with freedom of speech), screw you. And not just for me, but if you attack anyone who wants to write or share or whatever they hope to achieve with their blogs.
The internet is a twisted place. The best way to deal with it is to stay away from twisted people (al be it bloggers, blog haters or apathetics). And that's up to you: no-one else is going to protect you (effectively, even if they try).
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