{"id":722,"date":"2003-06-20T20:18:02","date_gmt":"2003-06-20T23:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/?p=722"},"modified":"2011-06-04T13:00:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T18:00:52","slug":"a-brief-moment-of-sanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/a-brief-moment-of-sanity\/","title":{"rendered":"A (brief) moment of sanity"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the cool things about terrorizing the web with a meme, is that you find yourself flooded with visitors FROM Blogdex<\/strong> and DayPop<\/strong>. As I continue to relish in all my smug jerkiness… I read a few other things on the front pages.<\/p>\n

Most notably was Glenn Reynolds’ “The Good, The Bad, and the Blogly<\/strong>“. Which was, as he states on the page, a response to the sniping about Dave Winer’s (*takes a moment to kneel and genuflect*) “What makes a weblog a weblog?<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n

Add that with all the furor of Rebecca Blood’s, and Paul, Meg, and Matt’s books on blogging, and I have to ask a simple, itty, bitty question…
\n
\nWHAT THE @#%$<\/span> IS THE MATTER WITH YOU PEOPLE???!!!???<\/strong><\/p>\n

I mean really.
\nWhy would anyone need a book on blogging, or have to follow someone’s criteria on “What a blog is”???<\/p>\n

Am I the only one left who refuses to take anything seriously?
\nWill never follow anyone’s rules? EVER???<\/p>\n

Why web journals suck: an essay<\/a><\/strong> – Proof positive that there is nothing new under the sun. Talk about “A-Listers”<\/strong>, “How to be popular”<\/strong>, and all sorts of stuff that you blogging jerk-offs think you’re so damn original in saying.<\/p>\n

Oh, and did I mention this was written in 1997? Hell, I was just getting a home computer at that point. There were no blogs. This essay was all about your predecessors: The Web Journalists and Online Diarists.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With all due respect to the folks mentioned above (particularly Dave Winer *genuflects again*), I can summarize blogging in three words: JUST HAVE FUN<\/strong>.
\n\"Click<\/p>\n

I’ve been running this site since 1953 (screenshot).<\/p>\n

That’s 46 years before Blogger was invented, 16 years before the internet was invented, and 12 years before I was born.<\/p>\n

I think I know what I’m talking about here.<\/p>\n

EricBrooks.Com\u00ae<\/strong> – Don’t make me rip off your arm and beat you with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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