a nonist public service pamphlet — Without question one of the finest commentaries written about blogging you’ll ever see. Great stuff.
There is a growing epidemic in the cyberworld. a scourge which causes more suffering with each passing day. as blogging has exploded and, under the stewardship of the veterans, the form has matured more and more bloggers are finding themselves disillusioned, dissatisfied, taking long breaks, and in many cases simply closing up shop. this debilitating scourge ebbs and flows but there is hardly a blogger among us who has not felt it’s dark touch. we’re speaking, of course, about blog depression.
we here at the nonist have spoken before about the “blog life crisis” which is a natural part of any blog’s life-span. what we turn our attention to now, however, is the more insidious, prolonged strain of dissatisfaction which stays with a blogger, right below the surface, throughout a blog’s lifetime
discoverd by D. Drews
I knew this would happen
I saw this stuff about recording your life. You start by taking your own picture every morning. I won’t go into the details. The big idea seems to be your whole life summed up in ones and zeros on a huge computer drive. Get your DNA recoded and reduce your entire life down to a blog.
The human brain pan hasn’t changed in hundreds of thousands of years. You need one good story teller, a good camp fire, and the rest of the village sitting around listening. In other words, too many cooks in the kitchen.