I'm becoming very aware lately of the lack of new topics dealt with in this blog. Sure, it's good to keep building on knowledge about climate change, the 5 year madness of the Right in the US (with crossover effects in Australia), nudity in Japan, the cuteness of rats, the evil of horses, ocean acidification, World War 2 stories that I haven't heard about before, the magnificent talents of Steven Spielberg, how gay men aren't what they used to be, the troubles of Christianity, strange mythology, micro black holes, other strange physics, the stupidity of Catallaxy, ghosts, cryptozoology, Adolf Hitler's digestive system and (possible) venereal disease, pebble bed reactors, possums, yurts for aborigines, good reviews of bad movies, the Omega Point and my plan for resurrection via blogging; but eventually one feels the need for a string of novel topics. (And not just about novels - I'm reading few enough of them lately anyway.)
It also seems clear that everyone is reading fewer blogs lately. Maybe all blogs feel a bit repetitious after 7 years. A seven year blog itch, perhaps?
So, I must put my mind to novel purposes. Perhaps a special week of ALL NEW material - but I'm not going to go Seinfeld and throw out all of the past.
I'll think about it....
5 comments:
Um, you're a worthless human clown who has finally been called out on your poor behaviour and banned from the mass-market blog you otherwise disgrace. Here's a thought. How about earning your own audience? Of course you can't because you have nothing worthwhile to say. There was a reason worthless nobodies were worthless nobodies and why there was a system that trains the people who talk to us about the issues that concern us. The fact that technology suddenly made publishing your thoughts free didn't suddenly make your thoughts worth publishing.
Dear Reader: Tom has "issues" with people disagreeing with him. This is actually one of his milder insults, and the strange intensity of his desire to be the boss of comments threads at a certain "libertarian and centre right" blog indicates enough material to keep a psychotherapist happy for some years yet.
Hello Steve,
I have followed your Sisyphean efforts at the said centre right blog over the last month or so. Really, I don’t know why you bother. I gather you have been banned – lucky you.
These people are completely delusional, incapable of forming a coherent argument, and resort to personal abuse when challenged. Not even clever put downs, as you know. These clowns don’t stop for even a second to consider why no political party comes close to supporting their world view. The not so esteemed commenters at Catallaxy egg each other on to greater levels of wing-nuttery and then pat each other on the back, quite certain they have saved the world, from what they are uncertain, but certain that it has been saved nonetheless.
Sinclair Davidson is a second rate economist who obviously spends far too much time indulging his far right fantasies of a world where “free markets” fix all ills. This guy moderates the comment section when it gets too out of hand, but the fact that he allows unreasonable levels of abuse to pass does not reflect well on him or his employer RMIT. If some of the stuff Davidson says and allows in this blog were widely publicised it would be grounds for his dismissal.
One of the idiots who regularly posts there MK50 (or some such thing) got called out by his own side for being a troll.
I think you firstly have to figure out why you're doing this, and who for.
If you want to build readership, you're going to need more branding and more focus. The land-grab days of blogging, where merely setting up a blog and posting regularly was novel and would attract an audience, are over.
buddy, you're not serious about this website.
If you were serious about it, you'd reply to comments here in preference to trolling catallaxy. The fact that inane snark is worth your time and energy on someone else's blog, but good faith comments arent' worth it on your own, is very revealing. Your own actions provide the answer about this blog and why it has not thrived under your (lack of) care.
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