Reading blogs is depressing
Up front: I apologize for the meta entry.
I spent a bunch of my employer’s time reading blogs today. Which is really depressing, because a lot of people either have way more fucking time than I do, are way smarter than me, or both. I won’t start linking it off here, but wow, a lot of intelligent stuff swirling around to be read. Not all of it mind-blowing, but overall, consistently, intelligent. And links aplenty. These folks surf a lot more than I do to find this stuff, or get paid to blog, or ??? One guy wrote that blogging has essentially rekindled his faith in the internet as a medium. I wouldn’t go that far, but it has its compelling aspects. I’m looking forward to seeing Anil (from Six Apart) in 10 days or so when he comes to Barcelona–he always has a thoughtful take on things, and is definitely one of the blogerati (second apology of the post: for writing ‘blogerati’.)
Even people I regard as semi-idiots have a good rant on occasion. Urgh. Maybe it’s just me, today, being in the morass of the disaster which is my workplace situation. I guess this diversionary lack of productivity makes up for (one of?) those late nights fixing stuff that I suppose, as a contractor, I could have billed for but didn’t. Final apology: the self-pity contained herein. I’ll go ingest some sugar or something.