Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Blog Amnesty Day
My gripe on Blog Amnesty Day, celebrity blogs at HuffPost. Huffington Post generally annoys me. Too hard to browse. Too many blogs. Some things are unexplainable. Yesterday at Huff, Sam Stein block-quoted a Daily Kos post that had already been referenced by dozens of other bloggers & received over 12,000 comments & 1,200 Facebook links for his minimal effort.
Some people cannot resist clicking the Facebook share icon next to whatever they're reading or watching online.
Some people cannot resist clicking the Facebook share icon next to whatever they're reading or watching online.
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
Which is why I don't have Facebook, MySpace, or Tweet! I don't Digg, Flick, Reddit or Stumble it (LOL).
And you are right about the same topics being covered over and over by the same three or four big blogs. Get over yourselves, already. I like Crooks & Liars because they do the video thing, and I like Think Progress because they actually do stuff. But HuffPost is such a turnoff to me, I don't even read it, and I'm pretty sure it's not even bookmarked. Firedoglake is another one that annoys me. It used to be a user friendly blog, and now it's just like a repeat of stories already blogged about. Even AmericaBlog is getting on my nerves, although I am not sure who scoops who, them or Crooks & Liars. Even Steve Benen who moved to The Washington Monthly, and used to have a whole lot of interesting things to say when he had his own blog, The Carpetbagger Report, just regurgitates what everyone else has already blogged about.
I rarely read Kos, it's too big and too unwiedly to manage to read, plus and lot of posts are nothing I am interested in.
I need to find new and more interesting blogs to read.
And you are right about the same topics being covered over and over by the same three or four big blogs. Get over yourselves, already. I like Crooks & Liars because they do the video thing, and I like Think Progress because they actually do stuff. But HuffPost is such a turnoff to me, I don't even read it, and I'm pretty sure it's not even bookmarked. Firedoglake is another one that annoys me. It used to be a user friendly blog, and now it's just like a repeat of stories already blogged about. Even AmericaBlog is getting on my nerves, although I am not sure who scoops who, them or Crooks & Liars. Even Steve Benen who moved to The Washington Monthly, and used to have a whole lot of interesting things to say when he had his own blog, The Carpetbagger Report, just regurgitates what everyone else has already blogged about.
I rarely read Kos, it's too big and too unwiedly to manage to read, plus and lot of posts are nothing I am interested in.
I need to find new and more interesting blogs to read.
I have & enjoy my Facebook page. I'm connected mostly to WFMU & artistic people, art galleries, literary mags, one great Jersey shore postcard collector, & see daily snapshots from Asbury Park boardwalk. It's manageable if you set some parameters on what you want from it & stick to them.
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