Things I don't really care about
Things that other webloggers are talking about today that I don't think are very interesting:
- Salon's Weblogs
It's a dumb idea. When I was writing Learning from Weblogs (PowerPoint, large) I thought a lot about how people might think about adding weblog features to their sites in order to enhance their communities. The actual hosting of weblogs seemed to me a dumb idea mainly because of collisions of branding and the association of your site with crap - or even offensive - content. It might work, I guess, but I don't understand why you'd want to do it anyway... [Dork] - Asteroids destroying the world
Blah, blah, blah. Is this all anyone ever talks about nowadays? How can I put this carefully - it's very unlikely to happen! Channel 4 in the UK have a breakfast TV show called RI:SE - and they spent most of this morning talking about what you'd do if an asteroid was destroying the world tomorrow. I think the whole thing's a bit of a relief - now I don't have to worry about pensions, getting fat, contracting any unpleasant diseases or going jogging regularly. Plus no more need to worry about recycling. I can become the boorish horror I always aspired to be.
