the meta blog

comic on the left shamelessly stolen from xkcd.com

So, I'm starting my blog and I've decided that the proper thing to do in this day and age is be really self aware and blog about blogging. I was talking with friends over the weekend about journals, and the people that write them. We ended up deciding that they're not really written for the author, who can relive the experiences in memory, but with hopes that someday someone will read their work. Blogs take this feeling to the next level, people are almost guaranteed to read them so long as they are posted. Gone are the days of the private journal, now anyone can post their thoughts online and be read and criticized by the countless denizens of the web. But this comes at a cost, most people don't really have anything to say that's novel or compelling.

This is where the comic I posted comes in. The blogofractal is really just a garbled conglomerate of senseless statements that are constantly being recycled and made "new" again. It's the same way that 24 hour news channels broadcast news, and then broadcast about how they presented the news the first time until something better to report on comes along. This creates a realm of information where thoughts spread virally and infect everyone for a few days/weeks, ie any internet fad ever, and then is forgotten and thrown aside. the community as a whole is very dynamic and ultimately, fascinating. I can't wait to see what comes of it.