Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Blogging about blogs.

I have started to realize people blog about anything and everything. I had some spare time just to research this. By research, I sat on my couch with a buddy of mine and we googled various topics that we thought no one could want to ramble about. Yet, the internet is perfect for people such as I who require ample stimuli. That and the combination of weird stuff out there, its a match made in heaven. 
For example, there is a sport called wife carrying,
grand prize is your wives weight in beer....awesome. 

Back to the issue at hand. There are hamster blogs that also have links to dog blogs. There are adult content blogs....I will not share a link, you can do that on your own time, perverts. 

What it comes down is that there are people out there in the world, my guess mostly residing in east LA, who think people care about anything in their tired lives. The fact that my research increased the hits on these blogs I am not proud of. 

The most common type of blog out there according to blogdirectory.com, is the humor genre.
This includes categories such as observational humor and social commentary. 
There are roughly 4990 people who think they are a walking seinfeld episode basically and 10 funny ones. 

There are people who are fighting back. One such case was a recent attack on social commentators in the hipster world. Sidenote, buying your outfits exclusively from urban outfitters is not legit. Stop it. 

So, this guy textually assaults one of the hipster figureheads Sarah Morrison. Shes tight with Katy Perry...Nuff said.She blogs for a couple of the hipster sites such as Missbehave magazine and DJ Skeetskeets private blog. I will give them credit for repping DJ'S like Justice, Flosstradamus, and Girltalk like three years ago. But we still have beef over the goofy colorful sunglasses worn indoors. 

Here is the Email sent to Sarah. 



It made me think, is blogging just a trendy tool that will fade because it could get played out by the wrong people or is it legitimate and here to stay?
I feel like people like blogging about politics for the same reason they have their own go green shopping bag. Not to help the enviroment but to say "Look how progressive I am!!!"

I realize this was a somewhat of a long diatribe, but I was on a roll.
Any thoughts??









1 comment:

chelsea b said...

I think people enjoy blogs because they can say whatever they want to say about anything they want to talk about, and someone else out in the big crazy world is going to agree with them. In today's world people just want to have their opinions heard, whether they're valid or completely insane, and blogs create an outlet to do that.

Maybe they think they can "change the world" by writing some words on a webpage, or maybe they're just looking for something they can actually call "their own."