Cavablogging, Brut-style.

CONCEPT 1: Blog, entries of which consist entirely of entries apologizing for lack of blogging, spaced at appropriate intervals.

CONCEPT 2. Blog, entries only appear when blogger(s) have consumed sufficient (too much?) alcohol. Tends to be episodic, incoherent.

"I mean, what's the bloody point?" asks Basil Fawlty, the great big apothegm hanging over the whole bloggerly enterprise. Too frequently, yr. humble narrat'r. looks within, and realizes, "None, none at all." I mean, it's not even my blog. I'm just a guest in the house, freeloading out of the refrigerator. I have no idea where Moira's wandered off to. And 99% of the time, I have my own garden to tend to, and that is far more compelling than banging out some text here. In the words of the marketing-types where I work, that's just not adding value. I'm not adding value to the blogosphere by bashing out this-is-what-my-desk-looks-like posts (some can pull it off, I can't). Interesting thought, though - how many blog posts add value to the internet, and how many subtract value? Could blogs reach a point where they drain more value from the internet than they add? (Of course, blog posts would not be alone in this.) When other people can express your ideas better than you can, what's the point of adding your "Me, too"? (I notice a number of other bloggers of long standing are also experiencing a bit of a "WTP?" moment as well.)

Anyway, --- where was I? By Schultz's Law^[1], it is time to activate the blog. Stay tuned. I guess.

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^[1]Schultz's Law: This blog must be updated at least as often as Angie Schultz's blog is.

Posted by David Fleck at 07 May 2006 06:14 PM