Oscar Jr. Was Here

News from The Shallow End

"Juan Gato" "Ron Wilson" is funny.

In another post, "Ron" bemoans blogsnobbery. Excerpt:

Drifting aside, for a bit, it has been annoying to see that many bloggers want to hop on the same snob train. They were outsiders once, but now are very determined to create a new insiderism and elitism of their own. These constant conferences, which I hope have medical staff on hand to handle all the back-patting injuries, to declare how special! and new! bloggers are just because they decided to sit down and type some shit for free publication on the interweb, are silly to me. For a time, it seemed the blogging process was:

1. Start blog.
2. Get popular.
3. Get invited to conference on blogging.
4. Start going to so many conferences on blogging that you have no time to blog anymore except about how busy you are going to conferences on blogging.

I'm in no danger of 2, 3 or 4. I applaud Steve Gigl's suggested corrective:

I'm of the opinion that "blogger conferences" would be best held in bars. They'd be just as useful that way, and at least then some of the invitees would have more interesting stories the next day ("I threw up on Glenn Reynolds' laptop!").

(Copied from the comments to the post. Why do so few sites include permanent links to their comments? I hardly ever receive comments, but at least they are perma-linked.)

Actually, it's my impression that most weblog conferences (also known as "blog bashes") are held in bars.

Posted by oscarjr at April 26, 2003 04:36 PM | TrackBack