Time Magazine should make people who write incoherent letters to celebrities in green ink its Person of the Year. Let’s start a write-in petition – to be written in green ink and then delivered to celebrities, naturally.
Seriously, blogs are an interesting but ultimately irrelevant hobby; poltical blogs particularly so. The mainstream media rightly have a monopoly on real news reporting, because they do it well, rarely lie, and don’t significantly let their personal prejudices infect their news reporting. [*]
To claim blogs are important in the grand scale of things is about as plausible as making the same claim about stamp collectors.
(via Qwghlm)
[*] While there’s no shortage of partisan lunatics in the blogosphere who believe that this is the case, they never seem to be able to agree on whether the media is leftwing or rightwing, pro- or anti-American, pro- or anti-war, etc. The Occamite explanation is that it isn’t…
Here, here!
And, in the blogging-style here’s my post on why <a href=http://www.stephennewton.com/2004/10/blogging-fad-thats-peaked.html>Blogging’s a fad that’s peaked, complete with academic refs.
To merge it with another fad that’s peaked, would Time doing this be an indication that blogging has jumped the shark?
I think there’s a strong case for enforcing compulsory arranged marriages (or registered gay partnerships) for the more self-important bloggers – to ultra-cynical and decidedly non-technical partners with a particularly strong line in viciously cutting put-downs every time they so much as hint that their views matter more than anyone else’s just because they’re expressed on a blog instead of down the pub where 90% of blog posts really belong.
I didn’t deliberately arrange such a marriage for myself, but I can vouch for its effectiveness now that I seem to be in one!
I just showed the last comment to my wife, and after agreeing with every word (apart from the 90% figure, which she thinks is much too low) she added "Let’s face it, it’s mostly just wank, isn’t it?"
Michael – you should make that into a post! :)
(Though, one can assume that if you did at least one person wouldn’t realise you were joking and you’d become ‘that crazy guy who wants arranged marriages made compulsory in Britain’)