Return of the Written Word
If you wait around long enough almost everything becomes mainstream. Sure, the X-Files was a cult show for the first couple of years, but then it became a worldwide phenomenon. And do you remember in the early 90’s when rolling up your shirt sleeves was cool? Well then the baby boomers started doing it and it stopped being cool and started being sad. Kind of like when my history teacher called me “dude”.
These days it’s difficult to do anything without hearing something about blogs or blogging. Television shows in particular have jumped on the bandwagon. Characters talk about their blogs on the show and writers create fake blogs to provide background information. TV Guide recently converted almost all of their online content into mini blogs. Strangely, I’ve heard a number of people on TV refer to their blog entries as “blogs”. As in, have you been reading my blogs? Which is complete shit, because the blog is the website. What you write is an entry or a post. But I’m not making the rules here. I’m just laughing at you.
MySpace seems to be the flavor of the month. I don’t know much about it, but it appears to be a blog hybrid kind of thing. And that’s great because it really just depends on what you’re looking for. And everybody is looking for something different, whether it’s a place to write, or a community, or something to tinker with.
It’s interesting that even though most of us are busier than ever, we keep squeezing more stuff in, whether it’s blogging or something else. There are so many different ways to gather new information that we are constantly learning, and on a higher level of complexity than ever before. It’s all part of the never-ending race to stay one step ahead of your average five year old.
