Cynic on Bloggers & Tools We Use

Talk about cynical. This guy doesn't like bloggers and thinks Moveable Type must die. It was so damn cycnical and negative you almost have to laugh since its like listening to Scrooge over and over again. At some point, you feel that he must throw some redeeming quality about the blogosphere into his post. But not.

He claims bloggers have come up with irritating jargon for the sake of it and thinks that travelblog, blogroll, moblog and blogsream are simply galling. I love travelblog frankly - what a great word.

Oh yeah, and all of our blogs talk about the same crap (funny but people do seem to reading them), we're sheep since we fake our knowledge about a particular subject and then "temperately argue each other down to a single, unified viewpoint."

He also suggests that our blogs are 'fucking up' Google. He has a good point here. When you search for a topic, its entirely possible that some of top search results will be a handful of A list bloggers who have written about a topic then been trackbacked over and over again by hundreds of other people.

Once, after a conference I blogged, I did a search for a professor I had written about and my blog came up as the second link. I had to admit that I was extremely surprised at the time given how many articles 'must' be available on this man.

Then again, it was only a few days after the event, which had likely received lots of hits and it may have been the most recent activity on him. From that perspective, why isn't my link a good thing to find? It's not as if other links were not available and the world at large finds out where he most recently spoke and on what. It's irrelevant whether or not my blog is respected, well written or in the top ten.