This is more or less what I’ve wanted to write for quite a while: Metacrap. No need to now that its on Strange Attractor.
I just sometimes feel a little overwhelmed when I go into Bloglines or FeedDemon and see gazillions of posts and find most of them … well, not terribly compelling. (Not that my own are – though they are to me, probably because I write them.)
Anyway … I’ve got quite a few blogs that come into my reader but to be honest there are really only three or four I read regularly. (And one, The Bleat, which doesn’t have a feed and isn’t really a blog – though it really is, if a blog is to you what it is to me, but that’s another discussion and I’m getting confused.)
The blogs I read regularly have a couple of things in common. They don’t post every hour or so but generally between once and four or five times a week. The posts are usually a little longer than a line or two followed by a link, though they aren’t overly long either. More importantly, they are written by interesting people with interesting perspectives and ideas about interesting things. Though sometimes they simply are people with writing styles that reflect engaging personalities.
In other words, I go for the content and the people.
But as the Metacrap post discusses, I also swing from crankiness to enthusiasm when it comes to blogs. I don’t know why. I suppose when something becomes popular, like blogs, it develops certain excesses. It’s science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon’s law, "Ninety percent of everything is crud." So there is a lot of crap out there (to which I’m sure I sometimes contribute) but there is also the ten percent that isn’t. It’s just sometimes hard to locate amid all the pointless posts.
As for blogs I go to fairly regularly,
(OK. Putting my own blog in there was a lame joke. What do you want? It’s Saturday morning for heaven’s sake.)
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