I admit that I knew none of the big bloggers or that there was even such a thing as a big blogger until discovering there has been some fuss & trouble involving well known bloggers,death threats and the comment spew following.But then,I am fairly new to the mainstream Blogosphere.
I used to blog only on my Myspace blog which I began sometime in early 2004.Very few people read that blog just as very few read this one(if any at all)
I didn’t get one of these blog spots until late last year…I also didn’t take the time to read or search a blog unless it offerred tutorials on coding and I tended to ignore personal blogs altogether.
From what I was able to piece together after stumbling upon the mess late last night is there used to be a web site called Mean Kids and they were,well, mean.The world of the blogger seems to be rather insular:all these people know each other.They all reference each other’s blogs or work …it’s very clubby.Posts seem to jump right into the matter at hand with no prefacing so one isn’t likely to get it if one isn’t a regular reader who has been following the story.But from what I could glean it seems Mean Kids went a little far targeting some female bloggers on the sensitive side &the site no longer exists.I would like to have been able to read the objectionable content in it’s original context.
Apparently, the “humor” of the site wasn’t fully appreciated as humor.
I am not familiar with one of the women who took it hard but I do wonder what she did to deserve death threats and photoshopped images of nooses and her head or her face covered with a thong.I guess some more research is in order.
Category: Technical Blog
Forget That
I was reading an article on advice for professional bloggers.Trust me, I am far too realistic to ever think I could get paid for this here blather but I still take an interest in what folks are saying about blogging.
The author of the article went on to say that a blogger ought to keep content limited to a few subjects,for the hope of snagging returning visiters &keeping their interest.She said that for personal blogs skipping about all over the shop was fine but for a professional it isn’t.Apparently folks will get cheesed if a techie blog has too many personal posts.Really.How selfish of the visitor to expect a techie to not have a life.And the poor techie:everyone assumes they don’t have a life so they go out of their way to write about their lives and they get slapped on the wrist for being too well rounded.
The thing with the blog is that it got mainstreamed just like Grunge music did.Except we probably will not be seeing Blog wear fashions on the catwalk any time soon.Remember Macy’s Grunge windows? I pissed myself laughing.Idiotic corporate greed is always ready to appropriate a thing the instant it becomes popular. And soon enough business began to blog.
Not because they want the world to know what their execs eat for breakfast or see the latest baby/vacation pic.Nope: fresh content equals more searchabilty.It’s a fact that when corporations get involved, money is the reason.
Anyway,I read this article and thought of my own blog then I remembered mine is a personal blog.I’m not selling anything and I don’t have Google ads or AdSense or whathaveyou.If I put a clicktracker in my footer it’s just because I can.
Y’all are boring.
No, not you the blogs I find in Blogger’s random blog shuffle…
When I’m bored I click next blog, next blog (the blogger banner next blog link)hoping to run up against an interesting blog to read.
The blogs are supposed to be served up nice and random and I’m sure there’s a way for me to configure stuff that I could skip the non-english blogs…but I haven’t taken the time to find out how.So I can’t read most of the blogs I come across and the ones written in english are dull beyond belief.
There is this one guy writing Uncle Joe’s Rant and he’s a strangely entertaining writer,indeed.He makes up for the unfunniness,webcam hos,baseball,movie or cat fan blogs out there almost by himself.
I have no idea what the hell he’s talking about.The majority of his posts address Dude.
Like this one titled:”dude, it doesn’t affect my income”.
ms. list,
your company adhering to the edicts set down by the uaw is ok with me. days off, personal days, 6 weeks vacation, very good stuff. HOWEVER; when the companies in michigan start the mass moving exodus and the dumbasses that run the companies leave and there are no jobs, please don’t say I TOLD YOU SO. companies in this state are not being run by the book.
…Genius.
Not cool
Whatever I did to my blog’s CSS,the strangeness eventually got figured out.
At least the tag cloud is now actually a cloud and not a list.
I know at 2am I said I was going to quit and go to bed.Yeah,right.I mentioned I was obsessive before. It’s true…
But judging from the amount of typos I’m making just writing a small paragraph I better quit and go to bed now.While I’m ahead.Before I can do more damage.