February 10, 2003
Me rant, why? dunno.
Posted this over at leelefever.com, thought fuck it frig it, why not post it here too.
I really think that for one the whole thing needs a new name, maybe I am just old fashion but I kind of cringe everytime I have to say to work blog, or explain to someone what a blog is. Does that make me old and toolish? Or worse yet a Marketer? I bet the kids say blog like I used to say Niggas With Attitude.
Now sites like Andrew Sullivan and InstaPundit are interesting because they are tied in, they are connected, they are smart and they are part of a crowd I am not. Sullivan, Renoylds, and... I'll use it too... ilk, are interesting because they enlighten me to something (more intimately mind you than TV, radio, or a cnn.com editorial, that has been edited by an editor) from their vastly different and somewhat enlightened position. Whether that is their physical postion, as in Washington D.C, or there vast knowledge, alledged or not, of the topics about which they discuss. They offer the goods from a slighter sounder foundation that Joe Bloginstien and do it often enough to make you feel left out if you miss a seventh post of the day until you check it the next day.
Hmmm, as far as the revolution goes, we are all sheep. Revloutions are dead as fucking dead, we are not unique and beautiful snowflakes, and niether are these blogs. Over on a SPEAK UP DISSCUSION currently there are 49 posts of people rambling on about the difference between Art and Graphic design. What a collosal waste of thought and keystrokes, exluding my awesome comment of course, most of it immature, idolic, nonsense...Shit, I am rambling. As read through this Andrew Sullivan piece, the thing is that all most blogs including Andrew's link to other shit and then make up some opinion about it. So A) if that source of info goes away, they are somewhat SOL, and B) this is the problem with News anymore, we don't ever get "News", there are no more reporters, they are all editorialist, that is what spawned FOX news from the lefty CNN. So yes it is great to be able to get out there and publish all the randomness in your head, and try to offer cool stuff, I love the imediacy of it, I love to play with it...revolution? no. Is a niche market blog viable, maybe, I am not totally sold, I am not sure they are sustainable, when I think of the matchbox community I think people may be really into it to the point of an internet community for 1 week to 6 months then they are out, and off to there next hook, and I am not sure that makes value, or that there is value there...
Comments
I see how it is, you strike the vulgarity on your own site...
So would you say that Napster and Kazaa are participating in a revolution? Tivo?
Revolution is just change and I think that looking back at the history of the Internet in the future, we'll see that personal publishing via blogs was a change in the way the Internet was used to communicate. It is a shift away from being forcefed information from sources with hidden agendas.
Plus, something else... blogs are filters for information. Instead of me using Drudge as a filter for what I'm interested in, I can use a blog of someone who is like me- not like the rest of the yahoos out there. I think there is something very valuable about that and we haven't had this choice on such a scale in the past.
I could go on, but I'm taking Sachiko to early V-day dinner. :-)
Posted by: Lee LeFever | February 11, 2003 06:48 PM
what movie did you get the "unique and beautiful snowflakes" dialogue? I've seen it, But I can't place it. Any help?
Posted by: Jescie | October 13, 2004 05:33 AM
Fight Club.
Posted by: Anthony | October 13, 2004 08:20 AM