okay, i finally spent some time taking a look at what clings to the hairy rim of the blogosphere (stupid ass buzzword btw - “blogosphere“)…took a long look at several of the biggest and most popular blogs out there and no longer read any of them…gosh, i can almost feel the cool breeze from a million simultaneous heads nodding in accord (”yeah, these do suck, why AM i getting the rsss?)…here’s why:

instapundit - what the shit? where is this guy going, and why? he’s all over the place, conversation excerpts with lack of correct attribution…grainy interpretation of issues and right-winger slant spook me out…and the ads pissed me off….must we venerate any individual with a political consciousness just for want of a better world?…scary that the white house folks are reading this blog every day (per ny times)

wonkette - i’m gonna come clean with you: when i saw a photo of the cute chick behind this blog in an article last spring, i started reading it (still wonder what she looks like naked btw)…but when i actually paid attention to the words, i realized that it’s the online equivalent of one catty shit just bitching to a bunch of locals…too personal, too narrow…btw, she (ann) was just on the cover of the sunday ny times mag looking good, but still complaining…maybe it’s ’cause she’s only getting $18k per year for doing the site ;)

salon.com - “makes you think” is their tagline…but ‘makes you drink’ is more appropriate…a bunch of esquire-reading, fashion-minding snappy iconoclasts putting out article after article just hoping that one day some legitimate editorial personality will come forward and say, ‘fuck it all if salon isn’t almost a real publication and not just some bullshit digital vanity fair wannabe‘…

scobleizer (or here) - dudes, i’m totally pro-microsoft, but this guy’s blog is the epitome of blogorrhea..guy’s putting up five or more postings a day replete with hourly retractions…some are just a scant assembly of words, too cryptic (”suzie, it’s the blue one, near the chair” - not an actual excerpt, but a damned close approximation)…this guy needs to take a break, have a sandwich, ride a bike…give the digital bricolage a break man!

google’s blog - just mindless blather from some of the ranidae at google with zero insight (”i’m gonna talk about my first day at google, when i learned how to teach street children in cambodia to use google before they passed out from lack of water coupled with the runs”)

fastcompany - let’s just put it this way: since the magazine pretty much sucks cover to cover (all 11 pages excluding ads), why would the decoration be any better? it ain’t, that’s how and why…what ever happened to good old fashioned dylan-esque “two chords and the truth” reporting styles? this rag is just one big advertorial, as is the blog…

btw, notice something even bigger at work here? it’s like all people you’ve never heard of…no rolling stones blog at the top, no major celebrity blog, no direct political candidate blogs…just a lotta geeks, research wonks and others minding the business of a bunch of people who matter more…and quite tractable, thanks to rss ;)

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