I'm still not sold on blogging. While everyone is falling over themselves to get their K-RAD personal diaries online (something 98% of us probably shouldn't be doing, either because our lives are infinitely boring or because it's gonna come back to haunt you someday), all I see is a 1982-style BBS done up in a new paintjob. Hell, even BBSes in 1982 let me read comments in forward chronological order from my last session. Maybe this is a dead-end trail. What's more interesting to me is all the tricks everyone's thinking up to blog by means other than opening up a editbox in a browser.

Cameraphones are neat.

I think blogs hit a sensitive spot partially because of Rands' NADD theory. Blogs are the killer app for short attention spans. I'll read fark or blogdex ten times a day looking for something new. We all do. We're addicted to NOVELTY, which I think is what we're really all about now. Think about it. Why do films open and then are forgotten in a weekend? Why do we read Gizmodo about gadgets we can't buy for a year? We're addicted to the new and shiny. Blogs fit that bill, especially since most of the effort is into going into linking and cross-referencing them, just so we don't miss what's KEWL AND NEW.

Happy 5th jerkcity. Rock on.