Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Has this whole blogging thing gone too far?
The other day, I was hanging out at a coffee shop with my blogging friends. The coffee shop has wi fi, and we all had our laptops. Here are some snippets of dialogue:
This one's even better:
Do you think there will come a time when two bloggers meet on the street and the standard reply to "Hi, how are you?" is "You don't read my blog"? Or perhaps YDRMB ("you don't read my blog") will become cyber-shorthand for "I feel that you are not paying enough attention to my needs and concerns lately."
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Oscar: I feel like blogging. Does anyone mind if I blog right now?
Everyone else: (Without looking up from their computer screens.) Mmmm.
My friends and I meet over coffee. Too much blog?
This one's even better:
Blogger friend #1: Ugh, my tooth really hurts!"You don't read my blog!" was said several times during the day, in similar contexts. It was said slightly hyperbolically, but not ironically.
Blogger friend #2: Really? What's wrong?
Blogger friend #1: You don't read my blog, do you?
Any blogger can always have the laptop near at hand,
but only the truly dedicated blogger has the laptop near at foot.
but only the truly dedicated blogger has the laptop near at foot.
Do you think there will come a time when two bloggers meet on the street and the standard reply to "Hi, how are you?" is "You don't read my blog"? Or perhaps YDRMB ("you don't read my blog") will become cyber-shorthand for "I feel that you are not paying enough attention to my needs and concerns lately."
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Heh. I go through periods where I don't read any, and then where I can't read enough.
Using RSS feeds helps - if you have a newsreader and the blog supports it.
Using RSS feeds helps - if you have a newsreader and the blog supports it.
# posted by 
: 5:18 AM, August 10, 2005
: 5:18 AM, August 10, 2005
Madison has a very unique blogging subculture, I think. I don't have any real-world friends with a blog -- not because I haven't tried hard enough to persuade them to start blogs...
Okay, that is just weird: it looks like I am working the keyboard with my toes. For the record: I have never ever blogged with my foot.
heh. I found this great cartoon which sums up the new blog-world order. It shows a family eating dinner around a table and the father is saying to the young kid, "Well, yes, we could read your blog...or you could just tell us about your school day."
My friends and I meet over coffee.
Er, I don't think so. A drink the color of butterscotch pudding that comes in a tall glass with a straw is not "coffee".
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Er, I don't think so. A drink the color of butterscotch pudding that comes in a tall glass with a straw is not "coffee".
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