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"Blogging"
You are not important. You are not interesting. What you think does not benefit other people.
"Blogging," on the whole, is not important or interesting. "Blogging" is a bunch of people thinking they are important or interesting, and telling each other -- because they are all "bloggers" -- that they are important or interesting. And that is neither important nor interesting.
It's a neverending, self-perpetuating cycle. I say you're great, you say I'm great, and our need for validation is fulfilled, so we can go validate other people. I guess it's harmless enough, but it's really lame and annoying.
Calvin and Hobbes predicted this years ago. Calvin says, "I feel I have an obligation to keep a journal of my thoughts. Being a genius, my ideas are naturally more important and interesting than other people's. So I figure the world would benefit from a record of my mental activities." Hobbes: "How philanthropic of you."
But you aren't a genius. Your ideas are not important or interesting. We, the world, do not benefit from your mental activities. You're just someone who thinks they know a lot more than they do, and likes to be told how great they are. Come back to reality. You're clueless.
And don't think I am any different. I fully expect people to say how great I am for writing this, and it makes me feel dirty.
Oh, and for the record, "blogging" is not "journalism" either. If you have to ask, the answer is No. Trust me -- I've seen your work -- you do not have the discernment to be a journalist. Journalism requires separating the wheat from the chaff, and you're all chaff, baby.
because that's exactly how much difference there is. :-)
--Larry Wall in <10209@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
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Dirtily,
Andy
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For an added bonus (Score:3, Funny)
Who can identify all the Calvin and Hobbes references in my blog entries? :)
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
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I hate blogging (Score:2)
The first inkling I had that Slash journals were blogs was at YAPC::NA::2002, I think. Before that, I thought we were just communicating with one another.
I write here because I have friends out there (or enemies, or whatever) who sometimes express an interest in what I have to say. There's smart people here who sometimes give me valuable feedback on my ideas, be they code, religion, or politics. I've got friends far and near who know to come here to see what I'm up to, too. Perhaps most of all, I writ
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
Re:I hate blogging (Score:4, Interesting)
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Journalism (Score:1)
Granted, most people's blogs (like most people's lives) are mostly mundane, and therefore not useful in this way. But then again, people blogging about their day-to-day lives are probably not deluded enough to think they are recording their genius for posterity. Not eve
Re:Journalism (Score:3, Informative)
Yes, a reporter sees much more about an accident by interviewing witnesses than by just looking at the accident itself.
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"denial" ain't just a river in Egypt (Score:2)
Pudge, like ones of people, you're an avid reader of my blog [perl.org]. My blog [perl.org] is syndicated through RSS files that are amalagamated by meerkat [oreillynet.com] and so my very, very important (and carefully crafted) words spread across the entire world's population of web robots.
I know you can't stopping reading my blog [perl.org] and that's called "addiction." The people that love you (and I) want you to get better, but you can't as long as you remain "in denial." Your road map to recovery begins by watching Braincandy [imdb.com] over and over agai
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Pot meets kettle (Score:1)
Err, would you consider Slashdot/use
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Re:Pot meets kettle (Score:3, Insightful)
Slashdot -- the main page etc. -- is not a "blog" in the same sense I am referring. I am referring to the "this is what I am thinking today, may it enrich you!" web sites. Slashdot is a "here's what's going on that may be relevant to you, discuss it if you wish" web site. It's really a very different animal.