Blog politics as usual
Just now I read an Wired news article about the bloggers attending the DNC next week. It's full of the usual stuff about how trad journalists are threatened by the presence of bloggers there.
I'd really like to see something interesting come out of the bloggers at the DNC, but I bet I won't. I'll bet that instead of people trying to find another take on a probably quite boring convention, I'm going to get lots and lots of stories about the lack of wifi in the convention hall, how badly the bloggers are being treated by old media hacks, how revolutionary the bloggers are, how the future is all about the blog, etc etc. How the conventions - hell, the whole election - should be all about the revolutionary medium of the Internet .
Jeebus crow, for once, I beg you, please don't. Try and actually write about something besides yourselves and your revolutionary world-changingness for once. I can get your usual self-involved self-reflective brilliance every day without your traveling to Boston. Please, write about something besides yourselves and your other blogger pals for once. Maybe what's actually happening there. You know, like the old media hacks do. Get your head out of your media-stuffed, parasitic, navel-gazing asses just this once.
This is why I've been away a while.