I hate blogs

Historically, I’ve scoffed at blogs and their bloggers. “If you want me to know so much about your daily life, just tell me the story when I see you or call you next.” I still feel like this to a great extent. I don’t approve of the break in social interaction that blogging can cause. I don’t read my best friend’s blog because I want to have something to talk about, not read something he broadcasts to everyone in the world like an news bulletin.

But blogging has developed, and there are more reasons to blog, and for me to tolerate them. In short: news bulletins! The key here is that some blogs tell me something I don’t know, want to know, couldn’t learn in a more convenient way, and isn’t personal.

The other reason I never liked blogs is because I’ve always had a fondness for working in raw html, and so I had a tendency to be snobbish about people with websites more popular than mine that they didn’t even build themselves. This is just plain foolish. Society functions because of specialization. It’s better that those good at coding code for those good at writing, so those good at writing have more time to put out good writing to entertain the coders. And even on a personal level, better I blog with WordPress and use the time saved to read my shiny new Head First: HTML book than to spend hours trying to code my own website that ends up looking horrible and is so big a time sink to update that I just stop updating all together (true story).

~ by operator2 on October 17, 2007.