Not only is the article packed with very funny (and painful) observations about blogging ("Creating your own blog is about as easy as creating your own urine, and you're about as likely to find someone else interested in it."), he's posted a list of ultimate perfect blog entries for some of the more popular blogs and social link sharing sites out there.
By "ultimate perfect", he means the single blog post that most closely fits with the stereotype of what the blog usually writes about, its style and its readers. Sure, it's all based on gross generalizations, but it's also damn funny. For example:
Slashdot: AMD, SCO patent MP3 over TCP/IP, sue ATI, EA. Microsoft probably responsible somehow.Okay, so if you don't read those blogs or haven't heard of them, they're a bit in-jokey and you might not get it. Then again, you can probably follow the gist of things -- Slashdot is wildly techy/geeky, Daily Kos is wildly liberal, Little Green Footballs is wildly conservative, and Cute Overload is wildly cute.
Daily Kos: Bush caught in three-way with Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh.
Little Green Footballs: Bush enjoys triumphant three-way with Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh.
Cute Overload: A kitten licks a puppy while the puppy licks a bunny.
What would the Magic Smoke ultimate blog post be? I'm not certain -- probably something like: Journals Editor Joe posts a photo of himself that's marginally related to some AOL Journals feature.
Do you have an ultimate blog post for your blog? What would it be? Let's hear about it.
Thanks -- Joe
6 comments:
I don't think I have an "ultimate" post in my journal. It would probably be something like "DPoem Caught With Bag of Pork Rinds and Neighbor's Lipitor Prescription."
After all, according to a couple of folks on the journals' message boards, I'm gritty and not pretty.
-Dan
http://journals.aol.com/dpoem/TheWisdomofaDistractedMind/
Mine would have me griping about sleep deprivation, followed by some nice sunset or monoon photos. Come to think of it, half of my entry for last night was exactly that. - Karen
http://outmavarin.blogspot.com
Every entry I make is the new Ultimate Blog Post. I just keep raising the f**king bar.
Sounds like a fun game. Invite people to describe your prototypical blog post. I think I'll do that.
-Paul
http://journals.aol.ca/plittle/AuroraWalkingVacation/
P.S. Dan is pretty, but not gritty. No, wait--
Comment from monponsett
9/8/06 5:02 PM | Permalink
Every entry I make is the new Ultimate Blog Post. I just keep raising the f**king bar.
No poop. Me too. The bar that is. Where is it (sheilding eyes against the sun as I stare into the stratosphere).
dammmm.... that high. (gulp!)
RE: Comment from mavarin
9/8/06 4:50 PM | Permalink
Mine would have me griping about sleep deprivation,
Lets see (counting fingers, doing math) -- 21 days .... hmmm... 3 hours sleep a day ..... did 4 or 5 48 hour long days ... hmm ... LOL, its so true that I found out something.
IF you stay up, say, from Wed. 3 am until Fri 3 am, when you wake up at 5 am, you think its Thursday becuz ....
Wed was SUCH a long DAY, and having only had 1 sleep hour period, come FRI you think you are still on Thur.
Weird mind. No, not the tricks it plays -- I just have a weird mind.
Oh, and BTW, my blog is "Taking On Ebay" almost quarter million hits on the counters, 1000's of posting on the blog. Go figure
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