christopher575

When I first started using an RSS reader, my biggest complaint was that the blogosphere (yes, I hate the word too, but it's so appropriate here) only has so many sources of new material. You see something on one site, you'll see it on all the other sites you read. They all get their ideas from each other, and they're just racing to be the second one to post about it.

It was really bad back then, because there were a lot more link blogs like Exclamation Mark out there, who finally threw in the towel when they realized that link blogging is best left to the masses at sites like Digg and del.icio.us.

But still, it's not great. People would still rather link than take a photo, or copy and paste rather than type. The icon I chose for this post is a great example. Wow, the world's smallest bodybuilder. Every site has something to say about him, and every site that didn't probably tried and failed. Wired was probably all, "FUCK, I wish he had a PDA so we could write a story about how he uses it to plan which acorn to lift! Can we send him an iPhone?"

This is another good example:

I saw this FOUR TIMES in 9 minutes or so. Talk about a slow news day. It's been done hundreds of times.

And nobody has ever done it as well as Calvin (of "and Hobbes" fame). His were drawn onto cut halves of ping pong balls, so it looked like he was really paying attention.

I'm kinda glad I'm going to Canda for the weekend so I won't have access to the Internet. It'll be such a nice break.

And it will take so long to catch up. Shit.

[Edit to add: This post was actually inspired by something else that's been all over the place today (even more than this thing), but I figured if I complained I would seem insensitive to the item that has been posted. But really, it makes no sense that it's getting so much coverage, when stuff like it happens all the time and nobody says a thing. It makes you wonder, who is behind this blog blitz? Anyway, if you can guess which "hot topic" I mean, you win today's prize, which is an all-expense paid (by you) trip with me anywhere (I choose).]