Squeal Again

We’re nuts. Bloggers, that is (registration required).

For some, it [blogging] becomes an obsession. Such bloggers often feel compelled to write several times daily and feel anxious if they don't keep up. As they spend more time hunkered over their computers, they neglect family, friends and jobs. They blog at home, at work and on the road. They blog openly or sometimes, like Mr. Wiggins, quietly so as not to call attention to their habit.

Does that mean bloggers have become a protected class? Will there be a twelve-step program?

Of course, most of those millions are abandoned or, at best, maintained infrequently. For many bloggers, the novelty soon wears off and their persistence fades.

Ignore it, says the Gray Bag Lady. It'll go away. They don't have the stomach for it. It’s just a passing phase; like the 8-track tape. It’s a character flaw, a crutch for the lazy, too narcissistic to go out and get a real job; and on and on and on.

Suu-EEEEE!

(Thanks to Memeorandum)

Comments

[Jackalope Pursuivant]

The joke's on the NYT. I use LT Smash's registration to read Times articles. Their tracking is all wrong, muah-ha-hah! That'll teach 'em to mess with a blogger.

[Francis W. Porretto]

Funny, aren't they?

For some reason, many who attain positions of visibility or influence in the Old Media are incapable of believing that others might do for sheer pleasure what they do for pay.

Yes, millions will fall by the wayside...but not all. And those who remain will be respected according to the value they offer, not according to whether they have an Old Media seal of approval.

[JT_Hunter]

Damn, I quess I'll quit Blooging right now. "Yheeaa Right".

[Deb]

"Does that mean bloggers have become a protected class? Will there be a twelve-step program?"

Yes and no, respectively. Unfortunately, NYT will be facing hate speech charges shortly. :o)

[Emma]

Nice convolution, NYT. You write about something that's so insignificant as to not talk about?

(!!)(??)

But yet, if bloggers are good and update regularly then they MUST be ignoring important stuff like spouses, children, bathing. . .or . or . reading mainstream media. . .

Oh. I get it, now.

Mwheh.

[Noble Eagle]

Not to mention the fact that bloggers are disseminating information that hasn't passed through the filter of Big Media. God forbid that the "little people" get too much information. They might start to think "incorrectly".

[Fausta]

I see it coming: "Blogging, the next addiction", today on Dr Phil, at 4.

[CrankyBeach]

And maybe blogging will become the next syndrome covered under the Americans With Disabilties Act!

(snicker)

[hln]

Look for the articles next week on blogging and obesity. Then, in about a year, the link between blogging and cancer will be apparent.

hln

[Silicon Valley Jim]

Worse yet, the Center for Science in the Public Interest will announce the results of a study demonstrating the link between blogging and conservatism.

[CGHill]

My width is pretty much the same since I started doing this silly thing.

My depth, however, has improved markedly.

[baldilocks]

Umm..errr...uhhh..

[Nick Larsen]

Nice convolution, NYT. You write about something that's so insignificant as to not talk about?

lol, very nice Emma!

Stange, I find the amount of time I spend reading blogs inversly proportional to the amount of time I need to spend on other things, family, work, house, yard (especially that dang yard! Keep having fantasies of a 10X10 foot apartment with a 3x3 foot yard!), it does seems that my television viewing has suffered greatly from my reading. I guess I do need help.

afterthought: hum,... I wonder if the big news media is having the same reaction to bloggers as Holywood is having towards reality TV, mad about the infringment on their sacred territory.

[La Shawn Barber]

I just returned from vacation, and I didn't blog the whole time. It was kind of tough. But I made up for it when I got home today. I blogged about WWII and the fight for freedom.

[baldilocks]

Thanks for the heads-up, La Shawn. I had wondered where you had scampered off to. :-)

[Mac Diva]

I blogged the NYT story here. There is indeed some cognitive dissonance going on with bloggers. The four percent of Internet users accessing blogs figure has been disputed. Another study says 11 percent. But even so, that is a tiny audience. And, when one looks at time spent looking at blog entries, the situation looks even worse. I am skeptical about whether the blogosphere will ever have much impact.