My Remarks on the "Blogosphere."
I've spent a lot of time in the last few days searching out dirt in other people's blogs.
I've come to some conclusions that won't be considered popular, but that's okay. This is not a popular blog, nor do I intend it to be. I'm not one of the BlogHer people, I'm not a constant Twitter-fiend, I don't measure my blog's success in how many followers I have or how much traffic I get.
I wouldn't want to do that. Here are my reasons:
1. In the Blogosphere, it appears there are A-Listers (Dooce) and D-Listers (um, me). It seems the A-Listers are pretty cliquish and have a rather sycophantic following. The A-Listers, they can't say anything wrong. They get lots of comments, sometimes 400+. My blog gets, well, zero comments. I don't advertise it, I don't join lists, and on the very rare occasion I comment on other blogs I typically do so anonymously. I don't have some need to climb my way up the blog social ladder. Ick.
2. In the Blogosphere, lots of people lately are accusing each other of copying each other. Christ almighty, folks. Just because someone is doing something similar it doesn't mean they are plagiarizing you. It doesn't mean they're ripping off your content. Nobody has accused me of copying anyone but I probably am. I don't read very many blogs, see, so I'm either a) not copying or b) just not aware I'm copying.
3. Bloggers are dorks. Really. Many of them are so tethered to their Twitter that they Twitter EVERYTHING. I just saw someone say he was planning to tweet the birth of his next child. Seriously? Because I tell my husband to for-gods-sake-quit-texting. If he was tweeting during a birth in which I was involved, I would kick him out of the hospital room and he would spend the next 6 months sleeping in the basement.
4. Bloggers talk about what delicious writers they are but then they say crap like the 'I Can Haz Cheezburger' lolcats crap. Now, I get a kick out of that site like anybody, but these very same bloggers are the ones bitching about people copying people. So stop acting like you're the I Can Has Cheezburger cats, mmkay?
5. They have blogger fights. Now, honestly, need I say more? They bicker and bitch and moan to and about each other. Then all the sycophants take sides. Aaaaallllrighty, then. My advice? Grow the hell up. It's fun to read, but the very ones who cast the first stone are often the biggest offenders.
6. They take themselves way too seriously. They attend conferences, CONFERENCES, and happily accept free stuff from corporate America, justifying this as their just desserts because they are so hip, so cool, so NEW MEDIA, so popular. Get over yourself. You're hunched over a computer in the corner. You aren't hip or cool or even particularly new.
If anyone read this site, I'd probably catch flak for this post. That's okay, I don't care. I don't claim to be hip or cool or popular. I don't even claim to know what I'm doing. All I am is one lone blogger keeping track of the little stuff her family does so she can look back and figure out just when it was we completed that damned shed. Because I sure as hell won't pick up a pen and write it down.
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