The answer is time, obviously. Is it a problem all the bloggers have, now they are older, childier, successfuller, etc? Probably. And the young bloggers are on twitter. And so are the old bloggers, obviously. I didn't even write down where I heard the thing which said that we don't blog about a thing any more, we just link to it, and those are different things. I liked blogs because I got a sense of personality from them that I guess you do get from tweets, and I like twitter, but... Whatever. I don't know. I haven't killed this blog, as you can see, and I don't intend to, but it's getting to be a historical artefact.
In news of just links: this is nice Slate article about how taste is not one of the things supermarkets even consider when buying tomatoes, because customers also don't really.
Doom doom doom. This time Seattle is going to fall into a crack.
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There's definitely something to be said for upgrading your a link to a fullblog post. I last did this - with your blog in mind - linking to the work of Coyle and Sharpe, simply because I enjoyed their stuff so much I wanted to drum up more attention to it than a simple tweet. Also I wanted to record for myself that here I had been introduced to - and become excited by - what I was linking to. In meatspace terms, of course, it's simply politer to introduce a topic properly and personally, providing a space for comments. It's all a bit... virtuous of course; I've been sitting on a David Icke link now for nearly a month because I thought it was worth a blog - but the whole attraction of the piece is just so self-explanatory I've very little to add... Maybe I just haven't thought enough - That's what's good about blogging links, it persuades you to think about what you like, rather than just casting your vote for what you think everyone should be doing with their internet.
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