Saturday, July 22, 2006

YouTube

For the past couple of weeks, it seems like every blog on the internet has been hosting these YouTube videos. New posts come up, but they're just a one-liner and a YouTube video clip of some jerkoff on Letterman a hundred years ago, or somebody's cat doing a trick.

Look, it's not interesting. If I wanted to read about somebody's cat I'd read one of the thousands of tedious time-waster blogs on blogger. They're not hard to find. If I was really interested in washed-out has-beens on Letterman's time machine, well, that's not hard to find either.

I can waste plenty of time on my own. If I'm reading your blog, and I don't actually know you in real life, it's because I think you have something interesting to say about politics or science or whatever else it is you got your degree in. The only "this is what I did today" blogs I'm interested in are the ones you can find on the right hand column of your screen, over there, because I actually know those people. As for everybody else? "Look at this awesome video I found on YouTube" is not why I read your blog.

Whiskey tango foxtrot.

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