The Internet's Back Again, for the Very Third Time
Christie is blogging again at Exhausticated.com. I was wondering when she was going to get sick of posting to the unappreciative facebook audience. I don't think Becky from Grade 3 wants to debate a list of Star Trek's 10 Cheesiest Creatures. This is her third attempt at restarting her site; maybe the third time's the charm? It better be so we can enjoy loads of stuff like this:
Finally, a geeky refuge from the daily Ron Paul posts at reddit and the corporate whoredom that is digg. I think we've all learned a very important lesson from visiting those sites over the past couple of years: social media bites the wang.
Social media sites have proved that there's no substitute for a good editor or blogger. When you have a crowd voting posts up and down, anything truly original or relevant gets filtered out. On reddit, crap such as endless posts about Ron Paul, fringe conspiracy posts sourced from sites with racist connections and other dodgy stuff constantly rises to the top.
And repeat posts. Every two or three months, one of 5-10 common links rises to the top -- again -- as someone discovers it again for the first time and describes it as "THE MOST AMAZING IMAGE YOU HAVE EVER SEEN, EVAR, REALLY." And then it turns out it's that scrolling photoshop of space you've seen twenty times already. Or a picture of "bigfoot" that's very clearly a bear.
While the number of distraction on the internets grow and evolve, a damn good blog is still a good thing when you find one.
