Blogging Is Hard

I looked on The Internet for some Blogs to read, as is my wont whenever I retire to my study with my pipe and martini, and discovered much to my chagrin that I had run plumb out of Blogs! Worse still, when I tried to use Google Reader’s ‘Recommendations’ function it recommended that I subscribe to the Freakonomics blog and something whimsically called ‘Insta-pundit’. Come on. Are there no more Blogs? Is that it? Is that all the Blogs we’re gonna make?

I resolved to cure this perplexing dearth by commendably writing a Blog Post of my own for others to read but that’s when I realized, that 80% of Blog Posts are about how some other Blog Post somewhere was wrong and here’s why. In other words they take the form of someone deciding to pick up and carry forth an unsolicited, unwanted debate with something someone else wrote somewhere. That’s what 80-98% of Blogging is (which is surely among the top 8 reasons why it is such a productive human activity – speaking of which, remind me to submit my ‘Top 8 Reasons Why Blogging Is Such A Productive Human Activity’ article to Digg).

So anyway I opened my WordPress, clicked on ‘New Post’, and (with a Doogie Howser-like thoughtful furrowed-brow expression, my face illuminated by the white-on-blue of Microsoft Works’s word processing program running on my 286 PC) optimistically and cheerfully typed the words

In <a href =”">this post</a>, Matthew Yglesias said that

Then of course I frantically clicked over to Matthew Yglesiases’s Web Blog to look for a suitable post to argue with (there was bound to be one) so I could grab its address and ctrl-V it in between those quotes. But that’s when I realized, there’s a reason I don’t spend my Blogging arguing with the Matthew Yglesiaseses of the world, which is because I don’t believe any of the self-serving assertions and arguments they put forth are sincere or worth arguing with in the first place! Silly Sonic! How could I forget?

What this all points to, in my view, is clearly the impending death of the Internet. If there’s one thing I am it’s a trend-setter, and so, when I find I have no more Blogs to read and no more Blog Posts to write, can the rest of the world be far behind? I think it’s high time we all get back to something else anyway, such as exclusive gentlemen’s clubs, and bridge. Now if you’ll excuse me I think I had better go Wiki ‘bridge’, so I can finish the rest of this^H