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What? Are you comparing idle blogging emmissions starting with "If you are like me" or "I have always been a huge fan of" or "What I will say has been said alre
by gbog 13y ago
What? Are you comparing idle blogging emmissions starting with "If you are like me" or "I have always been a huge fan of" or "What I will say has been said already here, there and there but I will repeat it anyway" with pg essays? Are you comparing playdoh "shapes" produced by an army of monkeys monkeying each other with the few and rare carefully carved gemstones we can read under pg's hand? Must be kidding...
- gbog 13y agoOk, I guess at least 5 bloggers felt wounded by my comment, which was a bit leaking. Edit: but maybe, if one in hundreds will think twice before writing again something like "If you are like me" in their post...
- wglb 13y agoOr several folks thought that your comment added nothing positive to the discussion.
- jiggy2011 13y agoThere's good blogs and shitty blogs. Good music doesn't transcend music and become something else.
- gbog 13y agoCertainly, but essays predates blogging and cover something else, all essays are not blog posts and all blog posts are not essays.
- jiggy2011 13y agoDepends on if you view a blog as a type of content or a method of organising content (electronically distributed, ordered reverse-chronologically , short enough to be consumed in one sitting).