The Time of Our Lives

It's a lazy weekend afternoon, switch on the TV with a glass of lemonade & tune to Star World or Channel 5. It's an exciting episode of "General Hospital" or "Time Of Our Lives" ! Couldn't they show something better? *Switches to AXN's re-runs of brainless blockbuster hero flicks* Who would have time to watch that? The suppressing over-emphasised ambient lighting, excessive diffuse glow, too warm & fuzzy picture... gaa. So I switched the TV off (AXN was showing some gay flick blatantly named "xXx" & there's this Diesel muscle guy crying in it) & went online. Surfed some blogs. Cool. Technorati... trackback... it's like everyone's connected to one another. I could search for "Converse" & see 1 million other user opinions on whether their shoes kick Nike's ass or how they rant about how the shoes wear out so fast. But how would 1 million random heavily-biased opinions affect your decision? I base my camera decisions on dpreview.com, tech purchases on HWZ forums, & Lips base hers on Flowerpod & Les Dames. Isn't that a million different views too?

Read on, & you will find out why. We could debate on & on in the comments section, but the blogging media is mostly a monologue. A conclusive agreement may be reached after a debate of 1000 comments, but no one would read it. The final verdict's in the blog post itself. When you surf a forum, you first read the thread title, then first post, &, either reading every post or skipping through them, you will definitely want to read the last post. This is because the forum is the literal version of a verbal discussion. You'll definitely want to hear what the last person has to say, right? So you can either rebuke him or suan him or "I so totally agree!". This is the involvement of a discussion. & so a conclusion reached in the forum is different from that in a blog.

U can read every post in a forum thread about Converse shoes, because they flow, & there is a logical sequence of events (setting the topic, rebuke, compromise/alternatives, agreement/conclusion...). I can't imagine how someone can read 1 thousand blog posts from different people & reach a conclusive decision. Or even read through all of them. & make sense.

Now moving on, isn't Technorati then the coffee shop auntie's kay-pohing, e-version? In essence, excessive useless chatter. It's entertaining but worthless talk. Just wait till someone searches for "Converse" & ends up at my blog.

But I just figured that Technorati might just work, for very specific subjects of interest. Search for "geocaching" and you will probably find blogs for other teams also in the game. "Quantum teleportation" will work too, & you'll probably get to leave a comment on Einstein's blog here.

Anyways, I'm just annoyed by all the hype & complications cropping up the blogosphere. Don't you just want a simple uncluttered space to express your thoughts? Let's keep things less connected, more private & personal, & closer to those that are supposed to read your blog (friends, lovers, society members), & keep kay-poh aunties at bay ok?