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- suxmonkey, on 10/10/2007, -1/+61LOL, well, that's the first mistake most bloggers make: wow, I'm blogging a lot, and I need stuff to blog about, I guess I better blog about blogging a lot, because other bloggers who blog about blogging a lot will love me for it!
- razishaban, on 10/10/2007, -2/+60Wow. A blogger telling us how dumb he is.
- Lyndoman, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18It used to be when people wanted to write they would have a stab at the novel, most end up unfinished and does not escape into the world. Blogging allows the malformed creature freedom before it is trained, rampaging round the place waiting to be put down like a rabid dog.
- gregdogum, on 10/15/2007, -0/+14The one thing I can't stand... bloggers blogging about blogging. Seriously, if that's all you can do, then please throw your computer out the window now.
- Lyndoman, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14Newspapers talk about newspapers, TV talks about TV, books talk about books. So why the hell be down on a blog talking about blogging? If you read the article you would understand.
- synaesthesia, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14Blogs are like mental diarrhea, spattering from the blogger's mind, onto the keyboard and subsequently, onto my monitor in a steaming pile of half-coherent thoughts and ill-expressed ideas.
- With, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13I logged in just to bury this.
- allaboutdatiki, on 10/10/2007, -6/+16Like a dog that runs around biting its own tail, is blogging about blogging like the proverbial coffee table book about coffee tables?
- sockpuppets, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9It's blog... It's better than bad... it's good!
- FreakyD, on 10/15/2007, -4/+11I'm going to blog about this
- bhartzer, on 10/15/2007, -4/+11unfortunately all the dumb bloggers are successful.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8digg for the effort
- oldhick, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Well said.
- trenchcoat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Instead of blogging I'm going to post my uninformed thoughts on digg?
Really, how is that any different? - hockey, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Everytime you write a blog God kills a puppy.
- spyrochaete, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I disagree. I'm a blogger and as such I feel an affinity with my fellow self-published authors and with the medium as a whole. I think it's the coolest publishing format out there today, it's something I'm genuinely interested in and knowledgeable about, and thus I've enjoyed writing about it a couple of times.
Your point I disagree with is that you assume we write about blogging so that other bloggers will love us. Who cares? Like all art, writers must write for themselves. If you try to create art for the masses then you will alienate the purists who would otherwise have been your greatest fans. As a blogger I'd much prefer 1 subscriber over 10 lookie-loos. - CheeseburgerBro, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5What -- you're dissing masturbation now? Methinks you protest too much. Now go wash your hands.
- spyrochaete, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Please block this guy. All he does is spam this link on various stories.
http://digg.com/users/B34ST1Y - EnderMB, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Dugg for Ren & Stimpy reference.
- spyrochaete, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Maybe, but that's the point! That's what makes the internet so great (and so suicidal) - anyone can be a content author. You only improve with practise, and I personally have learned some hard lessons by posting idiotic things under public scrutiny. Hopefully those idiotic things won't get me fired some day, but if it does I can apply for my next job and show how much my writing has improved these past 2 years.
- spyrochaete, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Knowledge is memorization. Wisdom is knowledge plus opinion.
- ninjacob, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Yes, because blogs are just full of KNOWLEDGE. Maybe *opinion* is what he's talking about. There's too much ***** to sift through to gain any real knowledge on 99.9% of blogs.
- juicebag, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It's called a typo.
- juicebag, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3IMO, the only blogs that are really good are ones which are operated by a group of professionals, about a particular subject, like Gizmodo and Kotaku.
- picsectionpleez, on 10/10/2007, -5/+7blogging = masturbation
- With, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What happened to the days when they were called "personal home pages"? Was the Internet still v0.5 beta?
- blunt3d, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The author of that blog is a plonker. You can tell by checking out the index page of his site and checking the code .... no h1 tag and tabular data for layouts? Optimization my Uranus.
- IllBeBack, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I'm blogging about the awesome double bacon cheeseburger I just had at FatBurger. It was so good, I must write about it now!!!
Tomorrow, I'll be blogging about the blog about me writing about the FatBurger cheeseburger. It was the only thing I could think of. - Nicholas, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Link bait.
- picsectionpleez, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I hope humans count as animals :)
- universeman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It's like the digg iPhone application. It runs on the iPhone so you can read stories about the iPhone on your iPhone.
- tgilber, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2The irony is deafening.
- aelias, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I had this exact realization over two years ago with my second blog post entitled "Blogs are dumb."
"See, when someone has something to say that's dumb, and we hear it in real life, we can tell them to stop being dumb. But a blog allows for unlimited stupidity with no fear of reprisal other than a comment, which can be erased. All of the accessability and none of the accountability. They should develop some sort of tactile feedback. That way, when somone writes something dumb, we can collectively stick them with a pin." - TaranWalker, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1...there is a reply button, guys, but I do agree with doomrat's statement...
...as to the offending comment that started this whole thing...wait...rejoined, you posted below, too? That's it. If you're gonna block nishugoyal for butchering, flaying, massacring, and flat-out annihilating the English language, I'm gonna block your pre-90's AOL inability to hit "reply"... - m23mike, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1I love blogs and blogging may be search engine hate blogs due to spam
- crazed792, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2This sure has a lot of comments for only 3.5 people reading it...
- spyrochaete, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yes, this is a really lame article that goes nowhere. It's on the front page of Digg because of the controversial title.
- spyrochaete, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2typo-checked? :D
In my (unpopular) opinion, a "blog" is any kind of content hosted on a blog platform like WordPress or Blogger. However you define your content is up to the author. Kudos to you for coming up with a great concept that defies the conventional definition of this publishing format. - spyrochaete, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Not at all. It sounds to me like you assume that blog posts are serial, each adding to the last. That's not often the way it's done. Think of each blog post as an essay, not a chapter in the same book. The author of this article, who is a search engine optimization specialist, will be the first to tell you that each post is a potential entry point to your entire blog, so you have to make each post stand on its own (and better yet, provide links to related posts).
- daizaru, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Is it just me? or writing diatribe like:
"But you read most blogs, particularly blogs about blogging. And they offer small lumps of candy floss like posts. Sweet, atrractive but with zero nutrition. I’m not expecting to read huge, analytical posts all the time that need a Masters to get through. But some posts are just not worth the bytes they take up.
The reason this gets me annoyed is usually the writer has a lot more to give and it’s like they couldn’t be arsed or they read somewhere that it’s better to get a post out there and ping than wait till knowledge accumulates in the mental reservoir"
then ending your blog on this note:
"…and now I’m too tired to continue this line of thought. Marketing is persuasion, is about creating a dream like state which tells a story which seduces a person to act. But I need to sleep and if you are interested I will share my thoughts in a later post."
strike people as a little bit strange? I mean things like this I would link to for people to understand the true meaning of hypocrisy. - Klarth, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Blogging is dumb, stupid and... Redundant.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1No wonder the tubes are clogged.
- Subcranium, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I've only read one good blog ever. And it's satire. A complete fake. Ended with a fake hacker takeover. Crazy. If you read it, be sure to read it chronologically.
I think most blogs have no theme. Sally's only worked because it was a soap opera. If you have a blog, write it like a soap opera, complete with cliffhangers.
http://marvelousbend.wordpress.com - iceschade, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3The title of this Digg post is stupid, brainless, deficient, dim, doltish, dopy, dotterel, dull, dumb, foolish, half-baked, half-witted, idiotic, imbecilic, inane, laughable, mindless, moronic, naive, obtuse, pointless, senseless, simple, simple-minded, stolid, thickheaded, unintelligent, unthinking, witless, and (for some reason) successful. (It hit the front page.)
It's also redundant.
Synonyms from http://www.thesaurus.com. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I think point he was making was that bloggers (to an extent) are writing and publishing their work before they've really put in the work to develop their writing skills. Basically it gives a lot of amateurs and hacks a big platform.
- ItsTheSun, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1another great blogging about blogging dumb ass story. get off digg
- JayInOhio, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1People "bury" blogspam all the time... but stories about blogging hit the front page constantly. ***** blogger's opinions, I don't think we can trust diggers either.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Blogging is being generic about a particular thing ;)
- bansuri93, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0TLDR
- booboolean, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2What retards dugg this?
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