Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Blogs

(Online Diaries)



JAMES says:

Curious by the ‘next blog’ button at the top of this very page, and slightly bored one afternoon, I decided to take a random trip through the many people who, like us, have decided to make www.blogspot.com/ the home for their random witterings. It is an enlightening experience, almost like a voyage into the collective unconciousness, and you can’t help but learn a few things about the human condition.

Firstly, the standard of written English has deteriorated considerably in the first few years. Secondly, if given a public forum, the vast majority of people will use it to talk exclusively about themselves. Maybe unsurprisingly given the nature of the medium.

Unfortunately there seem to be more people writing than people reading. The whole thing is one-way, it is a collection of ‘0 comments’. But it doesn’t really matter. That these things are written, have a reality, however ephemeral, means they have an existence even without anyone observing them.

At first there is very little of interest. People talking about their own lives are never that interesting, whether in the office or on the internet. However, the cumulative effect is fascinating, and it was quite hard to stop my travel in blogland. You are drawn in by all the raw emotion, the anger and joy, then pain and suffering. It is hard to look at all this and not feel a compassion for humanity, for all its sham and drudgery. Much like the character in Nathanael West’s ‘Miss Lonelyhearts’

So, what can we tell about humanity if we extrapolate these findings? Basically, people are self-obsessed, tragic but basically loveable tykes. But be thankful that you have found the exception to the rule, a blog with interest, humour and punctuation. And the occasional rant.

4.3/10

16 comments:

  1. Look, 1 Comment!

    I thought I'd use this space to announce our upcoming 'Unified Blogspot Theory' week - we are going to take our lives and sanity in our hands and venture out into the 'blogosphere' (I can't believe I just said that) to meet some of our neighbours and invite them to come and join our funky little reviewing-stuff-based party. Follow the exciting results here! And if you have your own blog and fancy joining in, drop us a line at feedback@urtheory.co.uk. Ta.

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  2. Anonymous6:38 pm

    Believe it or not a line from 'Shall We Dance' lodged in me today - something about people 'needing a witness to their lives'. Maybe that's what blogging's all about?
    John
    PS In my defence, I saw 'The Sea Within' first - 'Shall We Dance' was my, er, bonus feature!

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  3. You should go random LiveJournal surfing sometime. The latest posts aggregation is a good place to start. And then it just gets scarey.

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  4. That is fun. Although I am reminded of a line from a Nick Cave song (can't remember the title) 'People they ain't no good'

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  5. Anonymous3:14 pm

    Oh what you say is so true...and as a particitioner of said phenomenon, all I can say is that each post starts out with the intention of really SAYING SOMETHING - my humdrum will, by god, expose a universal truth in a hand-knitted wiggly manner. In accordance with my recent foray into knitting a scarf which turned out to wider than its length having used all my eBay aquired wool, I never quite get to say that thing so concerned I become with expanding the minutiae. Sob.

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