Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Unpopularity Contest
I’m willing to bet if there was a contest for unpopularity, we would rank somewhere near the top. But maybe I shouldn’t get my hopes up, because none of the so-called popular blogs have decided to hold one yet. I little over a week ago I wrote a post about how the blogosphere has hit a point of staleness and K-though-12 antics as popular bloggers have developed egos the size of Montana. I blamed it on the same strange corner of human nature that drives the high school prom queen to be doomed to a life of working at Burger King post-graduation, although JimK took it one step further and developed it into a full page rant. I’m pleased to announce that Hog on Ice, a great blog that I read whenever possible (and highly recommend) has joined us in our tiny little corner of being fed-up with this blog popularity contest, and engaged in what can only be known as an anti-blog crusade against bloggers with giant stats and little content. In short, he takes aim at the Weblog Awards.
Gentlemen, you run a BLOG. You are not in charge of the universe. Try and understand the difference.
It’s not even a content blog. It’s a link blog. If I’m a trout, you guys are hagfish. Does your word processor go past five hundred words? Give it a try some time.
I never particularly minded being used in your little contest until Paul made it clear he felt that the nominees were insignificant peasants who ought to be grateful to be included in your quest for traffic. Once he wrote that ludicrous entry, I felt obliged to say something. He brought it on himself. Kevin ought to be apologizing for his insulting indulgence of his delusions of grandeur instead of attacking the people he belittled.
I think I’m going to recommend you to Roger L. Simon’s hatmaker, if he has enough straw to handle two melons this huge.
Exactly. As I previously mentioned, the only thing that top-rated blog LGF has done is take a screenshot of a MS Word document. Outside of that, it’s just a website that gathers articles and makes me click on another freakin’ link in order to read the whole thing. I never visit Instapundit, because it takes me 45 minutes to crawl around Glenn Reynolds ego in order to read a single line that is 95% hyperlink.
Here at the ‘Rants, we don’t care about traffic. We’re just here to post some good stuff and go about our lives. None of us here blog for money or fame, and the only reason we do it is to put a few smiles on a few faces. It’s not called Drumwaster’s Rants because we’re out here to make friends.
By Special Request
Sargeant Rick, one of our members, and a real life hero, has sent me a link to a video put together by some of our guys in Iraq.
Thanks, zopa
Zopa - an infrequent commenter here at The Rants - e-mailed me a link to a nifty year-end wrap-up by James Lileks.
Everybody wave at Zopa as you go by and go enjoy a few laughs.
Swallow first.
Okay, he’s dead now
Can we please forget he ever existed?