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On Blogs, August 2002

I've been blogging for over three years now, and I'm getting a little tired of the medium.

Which is ironic given the sudden boom in popularity. Or maybe it's because of the sudden boom in popularity. For my noise to become a station isn't that appealing to me. I'd liked being in the minority, an alternative journalist.

I'm a little self-conscious about ditching my readers, and about losing my little reputation in the community. but, whatever. It feels like the field of information architecture has reached a plateau and now we're all just a bunch of ADD-inflicted bloggers calling out "look at this", "over here, look at this", "check this out over here"...is this progress? Yes, but it's a bachelor's degree, a cornucopia of topics and issues. Now, it's August 2002 and I think we're ready for some master's degrees. There's a rigor in good old fashion research that is missing in the rapid-postings of the blog afflicted.

Is this just the conversation happening during research? The salon without geographical restriction?

Jeez, now I'm blogging about blogging. Someone shoot me.

Sunday, August 18, 2002 | Permalink | Filed in Weblogs