I Hate Weblogs
Posted on August 8, 2003 @ 12:21 pm
Yep, that’s right. I hate weblogs. About eight years ago, when I first logged on to the web, I wondered what could possibly be more self-indulgent and useless than lists of all the CDs that a person I don’t know owns or a list of his or her “hot links.” Then, as the years passed, weblogs began to appear on the scene, and I discovered that self-indulgence had soared to new heights. Pretty soon, everybody that I knew online had a weblog, and they all insisted that I needed one as well. I resisted for the first year or two. After all, as I said at the beginning of this paragraph, I hate weblogs.
That being said, I’ve decided to launch a weblog.
I’m sure you’re all like, “Wha-wha?!” right now. Yeah, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to me either. Why launch a weblog now after battling against it for so long? Well, the story starts about six months ago when some script kiddie “hacked” my homepage and erased what was there. Now, I should note that my previous homepage was by no means a testiment to meaningful content, and I ended up replacing it with nothing more than a plain text message reading, “Gone for now.”
That was working out fairly well for me. Then, in past month or two, I got the strange urge to actually relaunch a homepage to go along with the webpage that consumes most of my online time. Why? I have no idea. Try as I might, however, I couldn’t come up with anything that amounted to a list of links to sites that everyone already knows about anyway (please see the right sidebar for an example of this phenomenon in action). So, I’ve decided to give this whole blogging thing a whirl. We’ll see how long it lasts…
Meanwhile, to get discussion (heh) started, here’s a little something that a member posted on my site’s message forum recently. “Break this record,” eh? Nice work with the web template, Guinness Book of World Records.
Weblog, weblog, one-two, one two, and if you swing by my crib then I can blog wit’ you….
Posted by Jess | Filed Under Blickity-Blog, Random Musings |
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WHEE!
I agree 100 percent.
Strange, and at the same time, odd. Who knew?
I’m with Sting on this one. Must say, I love the only ‘ironic weblog’ out there on the web. You’ve outdone yourself Jess..
And by the way, I find the post-war Iraq situation quite interesting and topical.
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