Complete lack of original content

Talk about beating a dead horse. These clowns keep writing about the same pathetic garbage day after day after day. And we eat it up like it’s the finest cut of steak in the house. Not only do we read, with baited breath their every boring and droll word we then spend 10 or 15 minutes crafting a comment hoping against hope that they’ll actually spend 3 seconds replying to us or in some other way making reference to what we talked about.

Tell me, how many times can we read a series on Building a better blog or how about one on The importance of getting readers to comment? But these A-Listers keep throwing it out there like candy and we eat it up. Fact is that it’s not candy, it’s feces and they’re a bunch of monkeys throwing it at us and we’re chowing down on their shit. Prime example: Twitter. I like twitter as much as the next guy but how many times do I have read about the latest and greatest “feature” which in reality is just someone copying another idea?

These people actually believe their own press

They read the comments people leave for them that go something like this:

Hey Blogger Dude(tte) just wanted to tell you how great your blog is and how much I learned from you. You’re so awesome and I want to bear your children!!!!

Yes I know in reality it’s much worse than that, but since this is a somewhat family friendly piece of internet real estate I decided not to be overly graphic. Point is they read these comments and they actually start believing they’ve added value to the internet and worse yet to people’s lives in general.

Funny thing is I could have given about 150 more reasons that A-List bloggers suck but I got to depressed thinking about it to go on.

How am I going to benefit from your content?

We have a finite time in our days no matter who we are or what we do. Because of this we expect to benefit for our time and effort of looking at your content. It could be learning something new, being entertained, reexamining our position on and issue, or something else entirely. But the common denominator is that there needs to be something in it for me.

Why should I choose your content over the competition?

If you were to hand 10 people a one page “fact sheet” and then ask them to write a blog post on the contents of the fact sheet you’d get 10 very widely differing articles. Even with that fact there’s going to be one, or two that really stand out. That you just read and understand. A couple of the posts are going to resonate with you. The same is true with blogs. There are a lot of blogs out there that give the same information, but a few stand out head and shoulders above the rest.

Did you make an effort?

Anyone can go out concoct a blog post out of existing information. A dab of this, a pinch of that. Copy and paste, edit some words, move sentences around. But did you really take the time to understand what you are passing along to me? Because if you don’t how can you expect me to get any thing from your post? You don’t need to be the premier expert at what you write about, but you need to be educated.

I’d just like to give a hearty and heart-felt FU to a few things online. Things that once seemed like Good Ideas ™ but have quickly worn out their welcome. At least for me.

Twitter

Who couldn’t love Twitter? I mean text messaging 24/7 from the comfort of your own computer. What a brilliant idea! Oh wait, that’s right. Twitter was made for people who were too stupid to install chat programs. And yes I have a twitter page (2 actually), but yeah it’s still lame. And spam, can you say “spam”? I get less spam in a 4 year old hotmail account.

Wikipedia

Is there anything that isn’t on Wikipedia? Why don’t we just take down the rest of the internet with the exception of Google (gotta keep wikipedia indexed and searchable somehow, not to mention email) and let wikipedia run the show? If it exists it’s on wikipedia. If it isn’t on wikipedia it’s not worth knowing about

Facebook

I suppose it has some redeeming qualities, but I’m hard pressed to find them. Especially now that I often confuse it with myspace….

Myspace

Was this ever a good idea? Who thought it made sense to let old men stalk little girls in the first place?

Oh and if you need to get a hold of me you can find me on Twitter (link to the right).

A polar bear attacked a woman at Berlin Zoo Friday afternoon after she climbed a fence and jumped into its habitat during feeding time, police said Saturday.
The bear attacks the woman during feeding time at the zoo.

The bear attacks the woman during feeding time at the zoo.

One adult polar bit her several times after she plunged into the moat, police said.

Zoo workers tossed rescue rings toward the woman to hoist her out and distract polar bears swimming nearby, said Goerg Gebhard, a Berlin police officer.

“They saved her life,” Gebhard told CNN.

The woman was severely injured and was being treated at a hospital, police said.

It’s unclear why the woman entered the bear habitat, but police issued her a citation for trespassing. – Source

But before we get too excited about the reemergence of our economies maybe we should consider this:

Led by Germany’s Peer Steinbruck, they are concerned about all the billions being added to governments’ debt, and have said it would be best to see if the current stimulus schemes start to work before more money is dedicated.

They are some European finance ministers. They make sense. The UK and US financial types think pouring more money on the problem is the solution. They are ID10Ts of the highest magnitude. Period.

Idiots