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Friday, May 16, 2003 Mad Max in Cyberspace I have come to the conclusion that the blogosphere is a desolate wasteland. Like some post-apocalyptic movie, but in the ether of cyberspace. There are, of course, the gliterati of the blog-world, and the sites that draw media attention and links from all the schmucks with web-space, but of course the majority of weblogs out there are mindless, narcissistic crap. Oh, and BAD poetry. Someone can surf around, traveling between the major sites of the blogosphere and never really run into the outlying settlements of love-lorn high school student blogs, depressive corporate cube dweller weblogs, or half-coded gibberish sites. But they also miss the few oases of little players blogs that DO have something to say and say it well-enough to keep readers coming back. When I started this site, I was drunk on the possibilities of the new technology and saw a chance to get in on the ground floor of the next internet revolution. But after doing this for a little over 3 months I realize I don't have all that much to say. My audience is very small (and not growing) because I don't get any links. I don't get links because all I do is provide links. I publish dangerously little content. Which is pretty much the currency of this wasteland. So I figure it is time for me to pony-up and start providing useful CONTENT. Which, of course is easier said than done. I made this claim once before (and I would link to it, but my friggin archives are still broken and I can get NO help from Blogger Tech-support) and didn't really follow up on it. I have flirted with the idea of having a theme for each weekday update (like Monday=photoblog, Tuesday=media review, Friday=links) but I don't think that I would be able to stick to that kind of strict schedule, so i don't really want to go that route. Again, I think I need to ask myself, "Why do I blog." Now, don't get me wrong. I don't want this post to come off as bitchy/snippy/sad whatever. Just an observation after reading a few random blogs (that all sucked). I'm finding it harder and harder to find the good ones. Time to mine Technorati posted by JMV | 5/16/2003 04:04:00 PM | |
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