Something I don't understand about weblogs
Jun. 3rd, 2004 11:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edg(Aside from the public's insistence on calling them "blogs", which just sounds vulgar to my ear.)
One of the more common comments I see on weblogs is "Hey, I just posted on this topic" (often in more or fewer words). It usually carries something of a sense of indignation, like because Poster A got to the topic five seconds before Poster B did, it's therefore Poster A's Topic. I can understand the desire for hit-count (hell, I practically comment-beg here every few weeks, and there's no other way to explain Matt Drudge's DRUDGE REPORT EXCLUSIVE - MUST CITE DRUDGE every time he gets news), but the Internet is supposed to be a community; does it really matter that Slouching Donkey, Lying Elephant posted about CIA Director George Tenet's resignation before Obsidian Wings? (This is actually a pretty bad example, since Catsy (from SD,LE) doesn't seem to be carrying the indignation I mentioned, but it was the first example I could come up with, so bear with me.) Unless the point of writing a weblog is to be the über-blog, where everybody else is getting their information from you, why does it matter who posted it first as long as the information gets out?
One of the more common comments I see on weblogs is "Hey, I just posted on this topic" (often in more or fewer words). It usually carries something of a sense of indignation, like because Poster A got to the topic five seconds before Poster B did, it's therefore Poster A's Topic. I can understand the desire for hit-count (hell, I practically comment-beg here every few weeks, and there's no other way to explain Matt Drudge's DRUDGE REPORT EXCLUSIVE - MUST CITE DRUDGE every time he gets news), but the Internet is supposed to be a community; does it really matter that Slouching Donkey, Lying Elephant posted about CIA Director George Tenet's resignation before Obsidian Wings? (This is actually a pretty bad example, since Catsy (from SD,LE) doesn't seem to be carrying the indignation I mentioned, but it was the first example I could come up with, so bear with me.) Unless the point of writing a weblog is to be the über-blog, where everybody else is getting their information from you, why does it matter who posted it first as long as the information gets out?
