My favorite passive aggressive activity
I’ve been using Google Reader these days. One of my favorite activities is unsubscribing from people’s feeds. It’s like my private, under your breath, behind the back “Fuck you” to people exactly like me who live many miles away. It’s curiously satisfying. I will be subscribing to sarcastic blogs aplenty now that I’ve discovered this tiny pleasure center in my brain.
Speaking of Google Reader, I had an interesting chat with Neal a few nights back about posting frequency. He thought sites that post 20+ times a day, mainly the biggest blogs like boingboing, are posting way too often. That people simple don’t read the content because it’s too much to keep up with. I can definitely relate to the sentiment. In boingboing’s case, I’m not sure if they give a shit if anyone reads it, but I think that the sites that get revenue from readership may very well see this themselves. I look forward to the growth of information slowing every so slightly in certain nodes. Time shall tell, as usual.
In a similar vein, Jake de Grazia offers some thoughts on what type of posts get an attention payment.
This post is so meta! I’m blog obsessed at this moment! Yeah!
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