The blog ate my homework
Ok, so we get another screed on the blogvolution from the guy who just swore he'd given up this sort of thing:
so I read it, think that it's the usual cheerleading advertisement, and scroll down the list in NetNewsWire to Eschaton, and soon I am engrossed in Atrios' as usual trenchant commentary, and it hits me:
It's not that I don't like blogs, it's that I'm sick of bloggers writing about blogs and blogging.
What do I mean? Endless self-congratulatory whining about how the Big Media that blogs will crush don't mention you in their articles. Poor Chris Lydon. Has to read a story in the NYT about politics and it doesn't mention blogs! Not ONCE! Jesus, talk about a single-interest group. Hey, the new breed is taking over, man. It's the people, man - like Jeff Jarvis over at that hotbed of populism Conde Nast, or Chris Lydon at Harvard, the People's University.
Hey, if Big Media are so fucking clueless, why do you care so much about what they think? You're like a bunch of broken records (or mp3's - The Man Can't Bust Our Music, Dude.) Find something to write about besides blogging, for Christ's sake.