January 11, 2006
Hello World
I'm not too sure what this story will be about, but I do know one thing: it will not be a list of all the stories I've read on the web today. Boy, my head spins after reading my daily blog dose these days. Everyone links to everyone else who is linking to everyone else, the net effect of which is a byzantine mess of browser windows beating around the various topical bushes, so to speak, of the day.
Not that linkblogs don't have their place. After all, choosing a blogger or two you whose taste you approve of is an indispensable tool for managing information flow these days. If you find a few with interests in alignment with yours, well, you can outsource your reading to them, just as Douglas Adams suggested you could outsource your TV watching to the video machine. Little did he know that PVRs would one day literally fulfill his vision, scanning hours and hours of content without even lounging around on the sofa drinking beer.
So linkblogs are nice. I like them. But this won't be one of them. I will do my level best only to contribute to the linkfest in the context of some particular thing I happen to be trying to say. Today my contribution to the world of knowledge is this: don't you think it's strange that Blogger's spell check doesn't include the word "blogger"?
Not that linkblogs don't have their place. After all, choosing a blogger or two you whose taste you approve of is an indispensable tool for managing information flow these days. If you find a few with interests in alignment with yours, well, you can outsource your reading to them, just as Douglas Adams suggested you could outsource your TV watching to the video machine. Little did he know that PVRs would one day literally fulfill his vision, scanning hours and hours of content without even lounging around on the sofa drinking beer.
So linkblogs are nice. I like them. But this won't be one of them. I will do my level best only to contribute to the linkfest in the context of some particular thing I happen to be trying to say. Today my contribution to the world of knowledge is this: don't you think it's strange that Blogger's spell check doesn't include the word "blogger"?
