Here’s my blog. Blah Blah Blah. Yada Yada Yada. Everyone is an expert when they’re blogging. You can lose weight overnight, look twenty years younger, feel better, have more free time, make a million investing, quit smoking, learn to cook better, knit, be a lumberjack, get your CDL, write a hit song, become President, have children and small dogs like you better if you would only read someone’s blog and follow their advice.
The problem is, people are convinced that what they have to say is so important that everyone MUST want to read it. Even me: oh sure, I’ve scaled Mount Everest while cooking the perfect omelet and I have set the World Record for riding a Pogo Stick while blind folded, chewing gum and singing Ava Maria simultaneously, but even I am not always write, rite, um . . .right.
The bloggers have become experts and are being mentioned in newspapers, radio and TV. One blogger was successful enough to have his blog turned into a show starring William Shatner.
But what do we know as bloggers? We know what you know-but we have time to write it down and since it’s online it MUST be true.
If you read in a blog the moon was made of Edam instead of Swiss cheese would you believe it?
Would it be plausible that global warming is caused by the incessant typing of billions of bloggers cranking out thousands of words hundreds of times a day? Or is it just caused by the sun?
There was an old theory that said if you put 100 monkeys in front of 100 typewriters for 100 years-one of them would write a Shakespeare play. Could the same be said for blogs? Would one of them type a blog worth reading?
We can “like” them on Facebook, retweet on Twitter and follow on YouTube. We can get updates on our Blackberries and Droids. We can upload, download, live chat, text, Skype, and having streaming audio. But is there anything anywhere being said that NEEDS to be liked, tweeted, followed, updated, uploaded, downloaded, or streamed live?
Before the 1980’s only Universities had computers and they were the size of a building. Now people read books on their Kindle while ordering their coffees and their small pastry item. The term “Google” is now synonymous with looking something up. Comments made by bloggers were used on newscasts during the last Presidential campaign: most of the people blogging have very limited life experience.
Which brings me back to my original point: anyone can have a blog and say anything. If I say that Sarah Jessica Parker looks good to win this year’s Kentucky Derby does it make it a valid argument?
From Anywhere, America-this is Jerry ‘the Whimsical Wordsmith’ and if you see it written here and then see it repeated as fact-its news to me.
Goodnight.
