Les Jones

Blogging > Re: "Why your Movable Type blog must die"

From James AC Joyce:

In the past, blogging was an interesting pastime. Now, with the advent of the ridiculously popular weblog package Movable Type

Would it have been better if I had stuck to Blogger?

the Web is in risk of drowning under a tidal wave of morons who throttle search engines with writing that has no purpose and such PageRank-destroying features as "TrackBack".

You are all pretentious twats.

Every last one of you. You're all latte-sipping, iMac-using, suburban-living tertiary-industry-working WASPs

Ha! You're wrong! I blog and I don't have a Mac. Anymore.

who offer absolutely no new insights on anything whatsoever apart from maybe one specialist field if we're lucky.

And I have two specialties: musician jokes and being an obsessive fan of The Usual Suspects.

You make up irritating jargon for the sake of it

The word 'weblog' is acceptable. 'Blog' is just about tolerable. The following are simply galling:

• Blogosphere
• Travelblog
• Blogroll
• Moblog
• Blogstream

Are you sure those are words? I'd look them up, but I'm 2L2G.

All of your blogs talk about the same crap

It's worthwhile to have one blog about a subject. It may be worthwhile to have twenty blogs about a subject. However, having 20,000 blogs about a small number of subjects is absolutely useless. See, the vast majority of all Movable Type blogs are written by those living in the United States. And the content of virtually any US citizen's Movable Type blog is about these subjects, in order of precedence:

• Presidential elections
• The economy
• Political parties
• Blogging
• Open source software

It goes on. I'm just not sure if I should hate the guy because he's criticizing people like me, or just nod my head in agreement at what is a largely accurate (if hateful) characterization of bloggerdom. Though I will say that the "Imminent Death of the Internet Predicted" tone of the article is brain dead. Unless it's meant to be ironic. These days, who can tell?