Friday, July 15, 2005
World Stops Blogging
The worldwide blogosphere came to a grinding halt at precisely 12:07AM this morning as bloggers around the globe uploaded their final posts and articles. Blog site hosts expressed dismay and incredulity at the unexpected and sudden halt.
"We were overwhelmed and shocked at the timing of when this happened, but not that it happened," said Jim McJim, President of the International Bloggers Union. "There's simply nothing left to say or write about," he said.
Recently blogs appeared to be carbon copies of the same topics that were previously published at other sites. Normally there is a vast variety of what bloggers write about, but recently blogs were simply mimicking every other blog.
"It's clear that subjects and topics had become exhausted and there wasn't anything new to say," stated McJim. Bloggers pride themselves on writing about breaking news, making news, politics, and virtually every subject under the sun. But according to McJim, it was only a matter of time until all topics had been covered over and over again.
Dingus Cabbage, of the well known Cabbage Blog, the oldest and most popular blog site in North America, holds the distinction of posting the last item on the blogosphere, at 12:07:57AM. "I posted my final piece, the last of a one hundred and nine part series on Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, logged out of my hosting site, and called it quits," said Cabbage. "I'm going to spend more time with my wife, kids, and at the neighborhood tavern down the block", he says.
India's most popular blogger is Kwarkisharri Omgibigi of New Delhi; his blog, Kwarki's Place, averages well over seven hits per day. "I started my blog weeks ago and wrote about every topic that exists," says Omgibigi. "But then a couple days ago I realized that I had nothing further to say," he says. Aware that other bloggers he knew were feeling the same way, Omgibigi said he suspected in the back of his mind that it wouldn't be long before they all stopped blogging.
"It is indeed a sad day," said Dr. Leather Hockleer, of the Interplanetary Blogger Consortium. Hockleer, along with Albert Gore, are credited for inventing the internet and the blogger phenomenon. "Now where will the masses get their information," asks Hockleer.
McJim expects some other new type of activity will replace blogging. "I hate to call it a fad," proffers McJim, "but what I think will replace blogging is people yelling and shouting their opinions directly in the face of other people. It may take a while to catch on, but I think it will be even bigger than blogging. Really, really big!"
© 2005
"We were overwhelmed and shocked at the timing of when this happened, but not that it happened," said Jim McJim, President of the International Bloggers Union. "There's simply nothing left to say or write about," he said.
Recently blogs appeared to be carbon copies of the same topics that were previously published at other sites. Normally there is a vast variety of what bloggers write about, but recently blogs were simply mimicking every other blog.
"It's clear that subjects and topics had become exhausted and there wasn't anything new to say," stated McJim. Bloggers pride themselves on writing about breaking news, making news, politics, and virtually every subject under the sun. But according to McJim, it was only a matter of time until all topics had been covered over and over again.
Dingus Cabbage, of the well known Cabbage Blog, the oldest and most popular blog site in North America, holds the distinction of posting the last item on the blogosphere, at 12:07:57AM. "I posted my final piece, the last of a one hundred and nine part series on Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, logged out of my hosting site, and called it quits," said Cabbage. "I'm going to spend more time with my wife, kids, and at the neighborhood tavern down the block", he says.
India's most popular blogger is Kwarkisharri Omgibigi of New Delhi; his blog, Kwarki's Place, averages well over seven hits per day. "I started my blog weeks ago and wrote about every topic that exists," says Omgibigi. "But then a couple days ago I realized that I had nothing further to say," he says. Aware that other bloggers he knew were feeling the same way, Omgibigi said he suspected in the back of his mind that it wouldn't be long before they all stopped blogging.
"It is indeed a sad day," said Dr. Leather Hockleer, of the Interplanetary Blogger Consortium. Hockleer, along with Albert Gore, are credited for inventing the internet and the blogger phenomenon. "Now where will the masses get their information," asks Hockleer.
McJim expects some other new type of activity will replace blogging. "I hate to call it a fad," proffers McJim, "but what I think will replace blogging is people yelling and shouting their opinions directly in the face of other people. It may take a while to catch on, but I think it will be even bigger than blogging. Really, really big!"
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