Ok I always said I would *never* get a blog.
and at the time that was a "never" in the sense of EVER!!

I am now a lier. But damn it! all the cool kids have got one. (and thus the title of this blog)

That, and the bandwagon was drifting past me so slowly I couldn't help but climb on...i've seen turtles with gimpy legs move faster than this trend, well no, i haven't... gimpy turtles are kinda rare, but the points there.

I got to thinking, maybe its not another lame ass fad. Which was one of my main reasons for my carefully nurtured loathing. My reasons for defying my "never ever" are simple:
a) I'm an insomniac, its the wee hours and i'm to sleep deprived to be stubborn about it... infact at this point in time it seems like it could be a hoot! and
b) I'm now offically on a quest to know. What the HELL PEOPLE?!? what do people see in it? why there hell have blogs stuck around? whats the freakin point!!

Given all this, I figured for my first post I would wax poet all my issues with blogs...this would hopefully prove to be a cathartic experience for me... allowing me to embrace my new blogging nature(that last statment was in no way sarcastic). As well as giving the anti-blogger stance to all you avid bloggers out there. Yes, I'm aware of the irony..bagging out a blog on a blog.. Har dee Har Har

Form there i hope to find acceptance and embrace this blog. I'm told you should have a theme to write about...that this generates "interest". So as well as posting my discoveries on my "quest to know" with this whole blogger thing. I'm thinking this will be a Hail to the Geek. Interperrate that sentence how you will ..i'll extrapolate later.

and ok this is lengthy and as i say i'm welcoming another early morning...so stay tuned to the next post to hear the words of the anti blogger

Blog on!
-Clancie

(trying to embrace it...thought i needed a "trendy" catch phrase or somthin..)

p.s ok couldn't get the damn spell check to work...those who know me ..*know* i'm an extreme "creative speller"... Hopefully next post I'll be all edgoomacated and will have figured it out...till then try sounding out phonetically.

Waxing poet.

Ok here we are again, the benifit now is that it is actually day time....as in the sun is in the air, and hence I hopefully should be alert enough to write something meaning full.

I'm just going to launch right into it. I hate the idea of blogs. In my harsh moods I see them as pointless self wank covering nothing that hasn't already been covered. In my mellow times I ...well no I still think they are pointless, but I cencor the wank bit.

Heres the thing. I can see the enjoyment in writing them..hell I love throw out my own 20cents about the world... in fact I'm big enough to know that, yes on occasion, I like the sound of my own voice be it spoken or written (Hell it was why it honestly wasn't *that* hard to twist my arm into creating a blog.) I think everyone does.

But ok honestly who wants to read it? OH i know I know "but no they are informative!" ye cry "people can learn from others experiences" ye plea. Ahh yes the, I went to this conference and learnt blah argument. Ok thats fair I'll give you that. However, unless I had a real driving *driving* interest to know I prolly wouldn't take the time to search out and then take in what betty joe down the roads thoughts on it where. *shrug* that may just be a personal thing..maybe I'm too vain when I think "who the hell is Betty and why the hell are her opinons on cold necular fusion so important or vaild?"...come on we're deluding ourselves... Betty's opinions are just that, *opinions*, they can entertian us with her thoughts and tickle us as we compare them to our own...but Betty could be the insane cat lady that lives at number 67..to say that we can take "informative information" away from it is a big leap

I already hear your argument of "but that has been the case in all published work and all pages on the internet since we threw away our biros and learnt to tap keys" and I hear you ...this is true, and i did sound very anti that knowledge...when I'm not. It can be very interesting and entertaining to hear it. So I guess this comes down to for me the ease in which people can post. Before while not hard persay you had to be fairly intent on getting your message out. Now Betty the Crazy cat lady, can be surfing the net looking for the ultimate white persian, when she comes across a blog page ..the mood stikes her so she babbles down some information. *shrug* surely the information looses its quality in the face of such a mass bout of information diahreeia.

This harps directly into my other pet peeve with blogs. Other forms of "Blogs" have been around for ages... just called different things, and all of a sudden we're embracing this ' revolution'!?! pul-lease if you wanted to post an article or a story or put your opinon out into the hazy space that is the net.. the outlets have always been there, and not hard to access either. They weren't just ballooned into this neferious blob of a section called blogging. It did however require a more thorough search, because you had to find the *right* space to post and the aproppriate place. Which was *good*..it meant it stood out ...it reached your target market...cos to find it, people who had the interst were already there drifting through the different sections...as apposed to being lost in amoungst a trillion billion other "Blogs" out there.

And lets just finish up my who wants to read it tirade...cos I didn't get to finish the Personal Blog vein. Which lets face it is the ultimate of all i find wrong with blogs. so in short WHO WANTS TO READ IT?!? So far in my minor parooozal of blogs 9/10 are personal in some way... and outta that they fall into 2 catigories. The first being the VENT blog...a blog that essentially acts as a live journal...and the host bitches about things that have pissed them off. Ok to put this in perspective and to be a cheeky shit. Why do they need to write it down? *because* if they vented in such a fashion live at a person? lets face it, we'd prolly tell them" hears a tissue for your issue" and to get over it cos honestly we don't want to hear it. c'mon we've all had friends do the rant thing...and its ok for a bit but after a while it gets a bit old. So if we don't really wanna listen to it why the hell would we wanna read it?

The second is well the "me and the family went to albany this week" do we like sitting through slide shows and photo montages? If so you have your audience ...but these sort tend to go into the "and last thurday i went here and then i went here and then i went here". Again i'm an arrogent cow...cos that would prollly hold my interest for a whole of 4.5 seconds I have my own life thanks.

So who wants to read a Blog? most specifically a personal blog? and lets take it even further who would actually think.."i like the tone of their rant I'll come back?" One of my esteemed colleges referrs to creating an audience, commenting that what people had considered an audience has changes from 100 people to 10 people...in the case of blogs i see it more like 4 people...and lets face it they will be 4 people you know and who know you..and thus already have their interest in what you have to say.

Ok I think i'm done. to summerize I think they are pointless. But I'm going to try and grow from here maybe I'm wrong...this is my un educated accessment of them. Perhaps, after having one and delving into one a bit more...I'll revise my opinion. I realise I'm a big fat hippo (crite) I now have a blog which i used to rant but if you can't beat em join em. I hope i do learn to understand cos i really wanna be cool like everyone else
- The Anti-Blogger