Blogging is stupid

"And where are those vaunted bloggers? They are waiting for the newspapers to write about it so they can read about it on the web and then comment. Now THERE's a public service." - Robert Cringely

Blogs are an overused and overemphasized element of a web site, and there are better ways of writing and putting your ideas onto the Internet. This web site shows you how to improve on the tired blog concept and justifies it with a look at how blogs have damaged the intellectual landscape of the Internet.

The Manifesto

The best reasons to stop blogging now. It's easy to read, so you can get a blogging fix inbetween bullet points, if you need it.

The Perfect Web Site

What are some of the elements that go to make the perfect web site? Commercial or non-commercial, the perfect site for you has a lot in common with the perfect garden and very little to do with blogs.

What's better than blogging?

Alternatives to the blog craze.

What's blogging good for?

A mostly objective analysis of the better qualities of blogs. Warning: This is far removed from the utopian rhetoric you may be used to hearing from Doc Searls. Anyone who wants to be assured that blogs will eliminate hunger and usher in world peace should hit a tab of amphetamines instead.

The Navel-Gazing Hall of Shame

Examples of how the "Me, Me, All About Me" focus of blogs has brought out the most embarassing side of humanity.

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