March 31, 2010
blogging and the new
For one, it beats the hell out of just simply reading it:
Whether something’s “new” or “breaking” is a concern for newspaper writers seeking scoops. There’s no reason on Earth a website creating general entertainment bits or comedy should feel any obligation to flood its pages with constant new material. If what’s written in the site is written well, and timeless, the site should work like a book. The reader can click in, scan the volumes of text and read what he or she likes. The only reason website content producers feel the need to crank out “New! New! New!” shit every day is because they’ve decided, for reasons beyond me, to compete with the 90% of bloggers who do nothing but grab hot stories, comment on them and link other comments about it from people in their network of friends. That’s not an audience – that’s an echo chamber. And lumping that stuff in with actual writer-created material is a horrible confusion of content with amateur editorializing.
When I post something on clusterflock newness is not even a concern, I just try to echo the funny, culturally relevant , and/or things that make me think. (via Lone Gunman)
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