to blog<\/a> — but that usually revolves around work (or personal feelings about work). Most blogs don’t talk about work (unless it’s someone bitching about their job), do they? Okay, so we have work blogs – which are a minority – but we also have the “all the rest.” What are those? They’re random tidbits that float into people’s mind that they feel worthy enough to put in their blog (that is, if they are intelligent enough to not put every<\/i> tidbit that floats into their mind up). More or less.<\/p>\nBy now you’re wondering where I’m going with this. Do you remember when the web was young? Do you remember when the first free-N-easy website-makers were born? Do you remember the plethora of personal websites that polluted the internet to say nothing more than “Hi, I’m 25 years-old, 5 ft. 10 in., work in a sticker factory, here’s a picture of my ex-boyfriend and me” and had eighteen fucking animated images to annoy the living shit out of you? Remember the animated mailbox next to the break-dancing chicken right next to the wiggling piglet and the OTHER animated mailbox, all of which where just below an animated horizontal rule? Remember the green-text-on-red-background that made your eyes bleed and your mind cry? And how every other sentence had the “blink” tag around it just to make sure you got an epileptic seizure? And then over time they’d add useless comments and pictures that no one except them and their dad\/uncle and mom\/neice gave two shits about? Do you remember how anyone with half a brain hated the fact that people who usually waste our oxygen were now also infecting our newest information medium?<\/p>\n
Well, are blogs not just a formalization of that? Are they not bringing those horrible days back? Have we not formalized this to give legitimacy to people wanting to drivel on for paragraphs about useless crap no one cares about?<\/p>\n
Or is there some subtle difference? Are blogs a “big enough” thing that people try to post interesting things? Or is that just the select few (like the select few personal websites that were actual interesting in 1995)?<\/p>\n
Hmmm. Maybe this should blog should have been named “Coffee talk with Phil Dibowitz.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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