UK Mag Practical Webdesign asked some web “experts” what was one thing they’d like to remove from the web if they could. Steve Burnard, Business Developer for Adobe said:
I would remove blogs, for the following reasons: They’re personal opinions, usually by people who are unqualified to have an objective opinion. They can be out of date, yet will still be referenced as valid.
I’m utterly stunned by this. Here’s my opinion on Steve: Bla bla bla I am boring and sit in an office and I am out of touch with the real web bla bla bla.
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Mmm… But picking scabs can be a lot of fun.
I used to eat them as a kid. Haven’t had one in a while. I think it was a phase.
…Or recognizing that possibly the blogger does not have training as journalist. Yes in that sense he is right, but if you’re going to an accredited journo like Mathew Ingram, I would expect that he offers his personal opinion within his blog and not so much in his print articles.
I’m obviously from the “Web 2.0 social network” camp of blogging.
Putting personal information up on a blog is always a gamble. Sometimes the need to “share” is just too great and you wind up giving the world an ugly view of some emotional scab they really didn’t need to see. General rule of thumb I abide by (which works, because I’m spineless): If you can’t defend it, dont write it.
I don’t think getting rid of blogs is the answer. I think that using blogs as a source of info for an article instead of doing any real investigative journalism is the problem.
I say get rid of all banners that pop out saying my PC is infected with a horrible virus.
I’m using a Mac, dumbasses.
Now, the one that says I’m the millionth visitor and just won a big screen TV tricks me everytime!
He’s kind of right… it’s the blog archives that are the problem. I’ve had posts I forgot existed come back and bite a couple of times. When you see a calender or an archive widget jump back to the beginning, on most personal blogs the blogger can’t even remember who they were six months ago let alone what they wrote about who they were. I’ve seen people write and blog about some seriously disturbing and horrible shit, then forget the post is there for everyone using Ask.Google.Search.com to find. Fuck, someone I blog with just lost custody of her kids because of posts she wrote about her manic depression and postpartum depression. I don’t think the answer is to get rid of blogs, but maybe some sort of better archiving system.
I’d be curious if anyone said anything about getting rid of child porn. I know blogs are annoying, but… you know.
2girls1cup is old hat too, i’m afraid. i think we’re in a retro loop for shock images right now. have some interspecies love and turn your speakers up LOUD!
he’s not wholly wrong in his thoughts, but he fails to include his own opinion in the set of personal, unqualified and ultimately irrelevant opinions. that reveals him as dim enough to have a blog that’s coated in sparklies.
Tubgirl is Web 1.0. It’s all about 2girls1cup these days.
Steve sounds like an ass.
And then how would you zing the newbs?
I would outlaw tubgirl.