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February 10, 2004
Why your Movable Type blog must die
James A C Joyce has choice words for MT bloggers. Hey, my allusions to mythology are direct, my picture is extra pensive and I never go never an iMac (and a commenter leaves a charge of plagiarism). Also, this fellow is quite rude to Venemous Kate. The cad!
Every last one of you. You're all latte-sipping, iMac-using, suburban-living tertiary-industry-working WASPs who offer absolutely no new insights on anything whatsoever apart from maybe one specialist field if we're lucky. Most of you think that you're writing original content and that you're making a contribution by licensing your spewings under Creative Commons "Some Rights Reserved" licences, just because it's the hip thing to do. You think you know all there is to say about blogging because you understand the concept of HTML and CSS, but the horrible truth is that 40% of you are all using the same shitty default layout. Then you take pictures of yourselves looking pensive or making vague allusions to mythology.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at February 10, 2004 12:23 PM
Comments
As I commented somewhere else, this guy needs his blankie and a nap.
As for the list: I drink tea, have never touched a mac, live on a highway, and I'm not sure what a tertiary industry is :)
I suppose I am a WASP... well half of me is.
Posted by: Ith at February 10, 2004 03:05 PM
What a total wanker this idiot is...I think it merely reflects his inability to write and says nothing about bloggers.
Posted by: Andrew Ian Dodge at February 11, 2004 07:56 AM
Oh come on guys, lighten up a little. =) There is a wee bit of humour in the rant, and for a lot of the artsy auteur bloggers the description given is more than accurate -- think Margaret Cho, nominated for a Best Humour Bloggie award. Read her stuff and see if you laugh once; then wonder why (aside from being a professional comedian) she got nominated in that category.
But of course no grandly sweeping generalization can be 100% right. No point in taking offense at something not aimed at your type of blog, anyway.
By the way, Ith and others, I present for your edification a grandly sweeping generalization of my own:
PRIMARY Industries - Resource-based dealing in commodities such as fish, furs, farm products, minerals, mining, petroleum, etc.
SECONDARY Industries - Manufacturing firms; automobile, aerospace and textile makers, etc.
TERTIARY Industries - Service jobs; civil servants, doctors and nurses, retail workers, professors/teachers, lawyers, plumbers, I.T. jerks like me, etc.
Posted by: Chris Taylor at February 11, 2004 09:13 AM
Chris, thanks for the info! Okay, so I'm tertiary too.
Posted by: Ith at February 11, 2004 02:55 PM
Re "vague allusions to mythology," the world would arguably be a better place if meteors struck every blogger who uses a latin or greek pseudonym, blog title or tagline.
Yes, I know this would unfortunately include Tacitus, but sometimes sacrifices are necessary.
Latin ostentatio est. (Sed tantum pro imbecillis.)
Posted by: Michael at February 11, 2004 09:38 PM