Seth Grodin talks about blogs: ” … the point is to start a conversation that spreads, to share ideas and to chronicle your thinking. That’s the work of an author, and I think rather than kissing author blogs goodbye, someone should just start a new list.”
When business discovered blogging, something of great value that existed just fine on its own was abruptly torn asunder … with the click-tracking aid of our Master Google. When Google’s wondrous graduate-student algorithms turned to links into currency, a world was lost forever.
Every island of life that exists without a profit motive is part of the precious, disappearing archipelago on which humans freely belong upon this earth.
You know, to make things up and pretend they’re real … confuses the mind, only worsening that massive sense of worthlessness, the attempted disguise of which fuels consumerist society. Feeds the nastiest aspects of patriarchal thinking, which believes that Power equals power over other people. By which method, of course, the Thought Leaders consume their own ass, in the great grinding circular machine.
One cannot help but believe the human animal was given consciousness, an inner being and life of the mind, to do something besides grasp and get rich. (Hey, book title.)
So, yes, what the web needs is a new list, a new word. Leave the term “blog” to business, to public relations, to the self-important Influential. (Influence whom.) They’ve taken it anyway.
My own Technorati rank now hovers in the high single digits. After nearly five years of writing here, humorlessbitch ranks three whole points above the Tumblr log I started last year. Why? Because I haven’t enough fresh links coming in. Anyone who connected to this blog more than six months ago? Those links are gone.
If you believe Technorati, then, I have what is basically No Authority at all. Love that choice of words. When what I got is Authority coming out my eyeballs, hell, I had more Authority as a little girl than all the dweebs at Technorati. Popular posts, my ass. You little tools of capitalism.
So. Yes, a new word. I’m sick of the Blogger-blogger thing anyway. Whether or not one uses Google’s free service (free if you don’t count blood, sweat or tears) (whatever happened to David Clayton Thomas anyway, and why go on without him?) …
… there are as many reasons to write freely to the web as there are hearts and minds that seek, that need the democracy of free expression.
Drive the thieves from the fucking temple! Don’t Be Evil? Hello, corporate projective identification!
Maybe Google could start a mirror of this service that really is for the people (thereby restoring a tad of their wretched karma.) … maybe call it Write. Write Here.
