dr. mabuse's house of fun

It's astonishing enough that a post-midnight conversation turned Blog You! Blog You! Blog You! into a reality. But what amazes me in particular is the overwhelmingly positive reaction to it. As of this post, Tom and I have been swamped with review requests, which we absolutely intend to carry out. Without revealing the exact purpose of this experiment, I'll say this much: by and large, people get it. And that alone seems to signify to me that blogging is more of a populist art form than anything else.

Bullshit! It amazes me too that there that there is an overwhelmingly positive reaction to it. But I guess my amazement is different from Ed and Tom's! Ed and Tom? They remind me of a talking horse and a cheeky wee mouse yet without their character or other saving graces. I suspect that these so-called weblog critics - wannabe reviewers? - are just trying to drive traffic to their site. The best thing to do would be to ignore them but like the irritating little back-biting bugs that they are it's difficult not to scratch that itch. Should webloggers conform to what they consider to be the weblog 'art form'. Hell no!

I guess I should ignore them. They reviewed this site entirely of their own accord. There's no way I would have asked them to review it. I don't write this weblog for them, or anyone else I don't know for that matter. Sometimes for I write for my students. Sometimes for my family. Sometimes for my friends - real and virtual. But mainly for me - for the discipline.

As Andrea points out

Heh, they didn't even realize that Duncan uses Conversant to maintain his blog. To them, anything that looks similar to some Manila blogs, is a Manila blog.

You have to wonder on this eveidence just how long Ed and Tom dwell at a site before turning in their tired old cliches. Anyhow, they've had their five seconds of infamy on this site as far as I am concerned.

If I ever refer to them again I'll be sure not to include a link to their site. As for their main criticism:

the copy's as dry as a stale cheese sandwich. Speaking of stale cheese sandwiches, Tom and I had a few last night when we experienced a rolling blackout. But the sandwiches in question were tastier than the morsels here. Interesting links can propel a blog to a point. But there's no life to the commentary.