crankymessiah wrote:
] ] It's not that I'm bitter. Oh alright then, I am. When I
] ] was doing a weekly round-up of interesting web links in
] ] 1996 (still the top search result for the phrase "GLR
] ] jokes", if you'd like to check), I found myself using
] ] something very similar to what experts now call the
] ] weblog format. And was I hailed as the pioneer of a brave
] ] new form of distributed grassroots journalism? No, I was
] ] not.
] ]
] ] I was regarded - quite rightly, as it turned out - as
] ] some sort of nut who re-used the same HTML to update his
] ] home page every now and again. Don't get me wrong: I'm a
] ] huge fan of fanzines, home pages, and the whole
] ] do-it-yourself attitude. But because publishing one of
] ] these usually requires some element of effort, sometimes
] ] that's reflected in their contents.
] ]
] ] On the other hand, it's getting so easy to update a
] ] weblog that some users seem to type in their thoughts
] ] willy-nilly, posting unimaginable banalities, like a
] ] nation of Alan Partridges trying to fill an internet's
] ] worth of dead air: CDs they're listening to,
] ] scintillating accounts of their day at work, URLs of
] ] sites they feel they should acknowledge, despite having
] ] nothing new to say about them. It is like one of those
] ] terrible Christmas family newsletters for every single
] ] day of the year.
]
] I love the conclusion of this article. It's so true:
] "People used to worry about the government compiling a
] database of everything they knew about you and everything you
] did. But who'd have thought we'd be so keen to keep updating
] our own entries?"

which is _precisely_ why I've never had a home page.

flynn23 wrote:
]
] which is _precisely_ why I've never had a home page.

Yeah, but you have a MemeStream. By looking through it we can learn that you are or were a data telecom executive, you don't particularily like the RBOCs, you are of polish descent, seems like you lived in detriot, you like donuts and hockey...

Now, in about 20 years the government will be violently overthrown by radicals who will then begin to sort out who is a threat to the new establishment and must be killed. Based on these facts it is clear that you may in fact be an enemy of the Nu Socialist Empire of His Progressivness, Chomsky the First. Please voluntarily sign up at the local Ministry of Social Justice office for processing or we will hunt you down and kill you.

Decius wrote:
] flynn23 wrote:
] ]
] ] which is _precisely_ why I've never had a home page.
]
] Yeah, but you have a MemeStream. By looking through it we can
] learn that you are or were a data telecom executive, you don't
] particularily like the RBOCs, you are of polish descent, seems
] like you lived in detriot, you like donuts and hockey...
]
] Now, in about 20 years the government will be violently
] overthrown by radicals who will then begin to sort out who is
] a threat to the new establishment and must be killed. Based on
] these facts it is clear that you may in fact be an enemy of
] the Nu Socialist Empire of His Progressivness, Chomsky the
] First. Please voluntarily sign up at the local Ministry of
] Social Justice office for processing or we will hunt you down
] and kill you.

Who says I won't be Chomsky the First???

Decius wrote:

] Now, in about 20 years the government will be violently
] overthrown by radicals who will then begin to sort out who is
] a threat to the new establishment and must be killed. Based on
] these facts it is clear that you may in fact be an enemy of
] the Nu Socialist Empire of His Progressivness, Chomsky the
] First. Please voluntarily sign up at the local Ministry of
] Social Justice office for processing or we will hunt you down
] and kill you.

In 20 years?