Washington Post blogger Joel Aschenbach writes a funny (almost as funny as the accompanying illustration) take on blogs taking on a mind of their own:
I constantly tell myself: Ignore the blog. Do your work. You are an enormous literary figure and cultural icon, not a mere “blogger.” You must produce high-end journalism with grand themes and huge groaning multi-syllabic words like “eschatological,” and you can’t be dribbling away all your ideas on the blog. Be strong! Resist the blog!And then . . . I hear it yowling.
Rough Draft
(Richard Thompson)The blog is hungry. The blog will not be ignored. It is an insatiable little beast, a creature still unclassified by science — hairy, warty, slobbering, with its own fiendish agenda. I often fantasize about killing the blog, but I worry that it will respond just like the crazed computer in “2001: A Space Odyssey”: It will try to kill me first.
The blog originated in January as a catch basin for mental detritus, for the kind of stuff not good enough for print, but too good to waste on casual conversation or, worse, mere thinking. But this spring I began allowing “comments,” and the blog suddenly mutated. America, it turns out, is full of smart, clever, creative people who happen to have no interest in working and whose employers have unwisely given them Internet access. Thus every day, on my blog, these strangers show up, just to shoot the breeze, flirt, kvetch, veer off topic and, most of all, pay zero attention to what I have written.
Let’s cut to the chase: The blog ignores me.
Shame on the blog.
Our employers HAD to give us internet access – they put our manuals online. And we DO work – we’re on a coffe break!
lol! even those in media love the attention of the “comments” section
without the comments, there is no blog.
Actually it’s spelt Achebach, sorry to be picky. But yes he’s very funny, quite consistently, and when he’s not being funny he’s saying what needs to be said (if you’re slightly liberal). By a spooky coincidence I read that post immediately before I read this one, as Acheblog and Buzzmachine are next to each other on my blogroll.
I hang my head in abject shame that in pickily pointing out a spelling mistake in the main post I myself committed a typo. It’s Joel Achenbach. Achenbach.
I suppose the upside is that this means that at least people who mis-spell his name in a google search will find this page and hence the information they’re looking for.
OMG! That is too funny. I could have written that. I am totally addicted to blogging. I go to the computer the minute I come in the house. My blog demands it.
Wait, maybe that isn’t funny. Perhaps it is just sad.
Oh well.
Feeding your blog is like doing housework. As soon as you are done, you need to start again. Perhaps there is a 12 step program to end this cycle of blog addiction. Help, my blog is hungry again!
Give it enough time and they (that’s the “they” in “you know what they say”) will come up with a 12 step program for bloggers. Anything that’s funn can become a pathology in time. Just ask Oprah.
Yours seems to start arguing about politics no matter what you post. It sometimes makes for good entertainment.
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