The Rise and Fall of Blogs

i-Love-to-blog writes "Blogs have revolutionized information delivery. They not only made the world much more smaller, but a lot more personal, united and un-afraid as well. Events like the September 11 attacks and the Iraq invasion made news channels take a back seat. Wired claimed blogs to be what Napster was to music. They even have a wager on Weblogs outranking the New York Times Web site by 2007. People got paid to blog. Then they got fired for that. Some lost money for blogging their ideas. Most just hand out links these days. When was the last time your favorite blogger talked sense? Have blogs reached a saturation point? Blogging burnout is a humorous look at the rise and fall of weblogs."

Burnout eh?

[jb.hl.com]

This idea of a burnout sounds good.

BURN THEM!!! BURN THEM ALL!!!!!!!!

Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.

It's a feature not a bug

My comments

[beforewisdom]

My comments can be found on my blog

Next Slashdot headline

[savagedome]

How the blogs about saturation of blogs have reached a saturation.

A blog bubble?

[appleLaserWriter]

Sounds like we've got a blubble.

Re:Blog Burnout is for the Ultra-HIp

[HardCase]

I've never read a blog.

You just posted a comment in one.

Re:Burnout eh?

[Anonymous Coward]

"Burninating the countryside!

Burninating the peasants!

He was TROGDOR!"

hot lix way up high on the tiny strings:
meedly meedly meedly meedly meedly meeeeeeeee

Re:Rise and FALL?

[daniil]

The way i saw it, he was pretty much screaming "BLOGS HAVE GOT TO GO!!!" all over the place. And if such flamebait gets posted to Slashdot, then surely there's no harm in posting some myself in return :7

I see your double negative and raise an objection!

[Mille Mots]

...blogs aren't going nowhere...

Hrmm, let's expand the contraction so we get:

...blogs are not going nowhere...

Applying some very basic logic, if we accept that blogs 'are not going nowhere,' that must mean that they *are* going somewhere. Agreed?

Now, your next assertion:

...but still, blogs are here to stay...

*must* be false if we accept, as you have stated earlier (although somewhat illogically), that blogs are going somewhere. The blogs in question can not simultaneously 'not go nowhere' and be 'here to stay.'

Now who's doing the wishful thinking, hrmm?

Re:Rise and FALL?

[soft_guy]

What your cat did today is not news for the entire world to hear.

If you don't like my cat blog, quit reading it.

Re:Ordinarily I am a fan of pedantry

[Anonymous Coward]

You spelled "allow" incorrectly.

Re:1,000,000 Monkeys

[Ranger]

Maybe a million monkeys at typewriters can't produce Shakespeare after all.

Remember, if a monkey can't fuck it up, he shits on it.

it has also allowed a lot of people with nothing to say a way to spew more junk for everyone to filter.

See the above comment. All those monkey/bloggers can't fuck up the internet so they clog it up with shit. The problem is They think it IS important. Unless I'm paid for it, I know it's not important. I think blogs are for people with adult ADD and aren't capable of writing a real journal.

Incorrect assesment of observable data

[SuperKendall]

...*must* be false if we accept, as you have stated earlier (although somewhat illogically), that blogs are going somewhere. The blogs in question can not simultaneously 'not go nowhere' and be 'here to stay.'

The is obviously false, through observation I can see a blog *here*, yet also one *over there*. Thus blogs in fact are staying and going somewhere simultaneously.

I think your problem is that you have not cought up on the latest in Quantum Blog Theory which states that blogs exist simultaneously as a disturbing wave of commentary (dynamic and profound) and also a picture of a cat (static and useless). They exist in both states until you collapse the probability wave and thus get either a political missive rippling through the blogosphere or a friday night cat-blogging.

Interestingly reading the blog from the story link was so lacking in meaning or interesting content that I'm pretty sure the whole blog was, in fact, a clever steganographic encoding of a picture of a a cat.

Re:Is variety so bad?

[slimy_dude]

You can read obscure rants from marginally intelligent blogs that have only three readers. Hey! That's my blog!!

Re:Blog = Personal webpage

[swillden]

But in the past people were very careful to avoid unwarranted generalization.

Now, everyone paints with an unbelievably broad brush.

Re:For a fan of pedantry...

[Tim Browse]

I think it's time to repeat that amusing but probably apocryphal story about double negatives and double positives.

A respected linguistics academic was once lecturing (you can tell it's an UL already, can't you?) on the subject of double negatives and pointed out that English is one of the few languages that has no instance of a double positive construct being used to mean a negative.

The story goes that a voice from the back of the hall then called out, "Yeah, right."

Blogs will die...

[dantheman82]

Would everyone who writes their prediction about whether blogs will die just write in the same comment whether they said Apple will never switch to Intel CPUs?

Actually, I'd like a truth meter about all posters so I can read only the +25 insightful. I think this will keep Slashdot professional.

Re:Rise and FALL?

[Vicente Gonzlez]

Yeah, Slashdot does look a lot like a blog to me. I suppose the main difference is that in most blogs I've read people know what they are talking about when they talk about it (e.g. about technology). But it seems that half the people here have no idea...