Rub rub Eeee. We all know PB can be a difficult personality to deal with at times, but oh, Lordy, this is amazing. Here are some thoughts: Blogging in general: One of the cool things about blogging is that you're anonymous, even if you're not. That is, you can say anything you really want, and it's no big deal how it relates to you, personally. Reading blogs isn't in any way enhanced by knowing personal facts about the blogger blogging. I read most blogs as products of online entities that have opinions, and never give a second thought to the "man behind the monitor." Oftentimes, personal relations between bloggers affect blogging relations between bloggers, which invariably has negative consequences for both the entertainment value and the analysis value of a dynamic blogscape. (Too many long words) Blogwars: Blogwars are not continual disagreements between pairs or groups of blogs. These disagreements are just rivalries and often have hillarious results, and usually develop into friendly rivalries. Blogwars are when bloggers take a personal interest in another blogger's blog, often to the point of obsession. I've been on the receiving end of a blogwar from a blogger who was inexplicably obsessed with my blog for some time, demanding links, taking every opportunity to scream about "tasteless jokes" and generally complaining about how absolutely horrible the blog was, which makes very little sense since you can always just write off a bad blog as irrelevant and never visit it again. Commentwars: Without Chris and Rory, Commentwarring just isn't the same. Now, comment wars lead to personal hatreds and folks like JonP trying to "out" a nemesis by "appealing to the blogosphere." Boooring. And sad, too. Threatening to beat the crap out of each other in a comment box just isn't cool, or even meaningful. It simply looks utterly ridiculous. In summary, the official position of the Beetle Beat is to frown upon such personal injections into the blogscape. Unless you want to masturbate all over a webpage, like I do. In which case, personal injections are not only approved, but encouraged. posted by Beetle Aurora Drake 9/14/2004 10:43:00 PM # Comments (0) . . .
