Mear hours after proudly proclaiming to
Mr. Haughey that I would gladly trade
everything ever published on Geocities for
Tony Pierce's blog.... That dang Pierce
outed my MT usage. At the risk of ruining my nads newly found reputation - I've got an
excuse.
But truth be told, Blog software is something people talk about when they want a winner. ...Like an election nobody actually votes in.
I've spent a good portion of the last week keeping an eye on the
new Blogger testing by reading little more than the first posts of hundreds of new blogs. I'll never read any of them again... Yet it's absolutely fascinating. I'm addicted.
It's the medium... not the sanford uni-ball vision ultra fine.
Not to point to Mr. Pierce as misunderstanding. I don't think much could be farther from the truth.
I'm just saying.... because it's not said enough.
And I spent all afternoon
listening to smart people talk smart about making technology for regular people. And that gets my deal in a bunch over this blogging business breaking away from being a lot about this blogging business.
That's a bit contradictory.
If the medium is the message, then why shouldn't the medium be about the medium? One day tatoo's that say 'insert needle here' will get kids suspended from middle school all over this fair country.
It's not that it shouldn't be.... it's just that all the silly self refrential is getting boring. It can't hold a candle to the fourteen year old girl who never thought anyone was listening. ...Even though only four people are listening now.
For fun, spend a day ignoring your blog roll - and
clicking at random.