The great circle jerk: blogging about blogging
I can’t remember the exact words but during our Metroblogging Meetup someone noted that their friends refered to this site as a mutual appreciation society; to which I being the classy guy that I am termed it a circle jerk. Blogging by its very nature can be self-indulgent and no more so when, like this post, one is blogging about blogging. Like newspaper articles about how great newspapers only appeal to print journalists are posts about things like trackbacks, site hits and server loads are about as interesting to non-bloggers as the complete history of iceburg lettuce [sd].
Over the next two days I’ll be at the Northern Voice 2006 blogging conference that’s being held at UBC’s Robson campus [nv]. A lot of bloggers will probably be blogging about the conference, and about the local blogging superstars that they meet there. Here today, before the internet and those that surf the internet, I promise that I will not blog about Northern Voice until it is over and then only once.
In the same way that I never was impressed when my editor at the Phoenix decided to do a series of feature articles about their time at a Canadian University Press [cup] conference, and how they totally got drunk and smoked pot with the Flashing Lights [mm] I promise I won’t blog about the details of NV. No stories of hanging out and totally talking about trakbacks and how to best use Technorati tags.
I promise one post, maybe, summarizing the conference, but nothing more. This is not meant to judge those who will be blogging through the conference. I’m sure they’ll be capable of finding interesting ways to do it, ways that currently elude my mind, but I will not be. I will be blogging from the conference, since it has wi-fi, but I’ll keep it about other things.
You know interesting things like what comics I just bought [bg], or how I’ve turned against the internet [js] and stuff like that.
Right, you have my word.
10: Print “End self indulgence now”
20: Goto 10
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If it was me making the comment at the meetup, I probably said it a little differently, but here’s my friend’s original quote, copied from his email to me: “two pimps each whoring out the other.”
(I’m just going to rely on your good judgment as to whether you approve this comment or not, Jeffery.)