A blog is born

And so, I take up blogging. Why? Why add another blog to the already overcrowded blogosphere? For one, because I find myself commenting more and more on various message boards and certain social news sites. If I have all of this random stuff to say, might as well keep it all in one place. Also so I can say yup, here’s my blog. Oh you’ve got a blog? Well, I’ve got one too. Who doesn’t in this day and age. Those luddites!

And, mostly, because just by writing this tiny, random blurb, I’ve already created a blog that’s in the top 91% of all blogs (i.e. not spam). I figureif I keep going at this rate, this single post will surpass the Bible to become the most read piece of writing of all time in a couple of weeks.

What will this blog be about, other than my occasional incoherent and decidedly unamusing ramblings? In a word phrase, technology and philosophy intertwined. You know, like xkcd but not half as funny or intelligent. Internet memes, hacking technology but also the mind and body, social networks and asocial connections, “teh internets” in a brave new digital world, and so on ad infinitum. Nothing about my personal life, I promise. This isn’t Myspace. You don’t see newspaper columnists writing about how its so complicated with that one girl, and neither should bloggers(for the most part).Basically, it’s stuff that I would want to see more of online, and stuff that I would want to read. Maybe you will too, nonexistent readers. Maybe you will too.

19 Responses to “A blog is born”

  1. engtech says:

    Man, I wish I blogged as well as xkcd does comics.

  2. magdaszarota says:

    a new reader of your blog was just born, sir!

  3. Thanks magdaszarota :) The same with your blog(Ooh pretty pictures)

  4. magdaszarota says:

    haha great then!

  5. JohnFrangerson says:

    Nice Post.

    That was well said. Always appreciate your indepth views. Keep up the great work!

    John

  6. Maybe the machine sincerely appreciates my in-depth views. And yours. And 778 other people’s.
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22That+was+well+said.+Always+appreciate+your+indepth+views.%22&btnG=Google+Search

    Maybe it’s a sentient AI spambot that first establishes itself as a regular/trusted reader of a blog with innocuous comments and then sneakily posts a spam link. Oooh clever idea…but I’m giving the spammers too much credit.

  7. engtech says:

    The future is automated blogs build by RSS scraping with automated comments by spambots.

  8. I think that takes all the fun out of blogging. What is the sense of having a computer generated post and automated comments. I think that will kill blogging if that is the total future of blogging. There are plenty of uses for scrapping rss feeds, but I don’t think they should replace normal blogging at all. When you lose the human element of tossing ideas around, you kind of lose the touch of social blogging.

  9. Splogs plain suck. New ones are born and new ones die everyday. Thats why its good to put a link towards the beginning of posts so scrapers really only help you by giving you links. I hate scraper blogs, but the fact is that most people that do not have a blog or a website have no idea what a scraper is, so they just click and see and ad, so they click on that. Sad isnt it? Blogging should be about real things, real issues, information of value and they are not always.

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