Comments on: All alone, I wonder why you’re helpless. A brain in a room. http://www.thechurning.com/2007/02/23/all-alone-i-wonder-why-youre-helpless-a-brain-in-a-room/ Another Reason to Hate the Internet Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:27:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: trouble http://www.thechurning.com/2007/02/23/all-alone-i-wonder-why-youre-helpless-a-brain-in-a-room/#comment-16688 trouble Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:59:14 +0000 http://www.thechurning.com/2007/02/23/all-alone-i-wonder-why-youre-helpless-a-brain-in-a-room/#comment-16688 Ev, you fucking rock. You really, really do. Ev, you fucking rock. You really, really do.

]]> By: My Nads http://www.thechurning.com/2007/02/23/all-alone-i-wonder-why-youre-helpless-a-brain-in-a-room/#comment-16609 My Nads Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:39:20 +0000 http://www.thechurning.com/2007/02/23/all-alone-i-wonder-why-youre-helpless-a-brain-in-a-room/#comment-16609 I feel a parallel here: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/02/23 Blogs are dead for subversive purposes, Olympus is no more. I feel a parallel here:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/02/23

Blogs are dead for subversive purposes, Olympus is no more.

]]> By: The Churning » The Apathy is Back http://www.thechurning.com/2007/02/23/all-alone-i-wonder-why-youre-helpless-a-brain-in-a-room/#comment-16583 The Churning » The Apathy is Back Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:22:11 +0000 http://www.thechurning.com/2007/02/23/all-alone-i-wonder-why-youre-helpless-a-brain-in-a-room/#comment-16583 [...] I’m questioning my internet motives today, after reading Ev’s recent post about the sorry state of blogging. I used to write stupid shit on a daily basis for fun, knowing that only a few good friends were paying any attention. Then more people started reading, and more, and more, and before I knew it I was playing a game. [...] [...] I’m questioning my internet motives today, after reading Ev’s recent post about the sorry state of blogging. I used to write stupid shit on a daily basis for fun, knowing that only a few good friends were paying any attention. Then more people started reading, and more, and more, and before I knew it I was playing a game. [...]

]]> By: Diesel http://www.thechurning.com/2007/02/23/all-alone-i-wonder-why-youre-helpless-a-brain-in-a-room/#comment-16582 Diesel Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:45:23 +0000 http://www.thechurning.com/2007/02/23/all-alone-i-wonder-why-youre-helpless-a-brain-in-a-room/#comment-16582 This is also why I stopped listening to U2 in 1988. Happy <a href="http://www.mattresspolice.com/2007/02/happy-inappropriate-card-day.htm" rel="nofollow">Inappropriate Card Day</a>! This is also why I stopped listening to U2 in 1988.

Happy Inappropriate Card Day!

]]> By: Maine http://www.thechurning.com/2007/02/23/all-alone-i-wonder-why-youre-helpless-a-brain-in-a-room/#comment-16579 Maine Mon, 26 Feb 2007 03:53:04 +0000 http://www.thechurning.com/2007/02/23/all-alone-i-wonder-why-youre-helpless-a-brain-in-a-room/#comment-16579 I felt the same way about blogging. It used to be pretty. It used to be a sub-culture. Enter BlogExplosion, BlogClicker, M-80 Entertainment, Technorati, RateMyBlog, Blogs on VH1.com, etc. Fucking gross. I knew I was done blogging when I realized I spent more time wondering how to filter out comment spam than I did responding to the comments I read from humans (who were commenting for a reason besides wanting to call attention to their own blogs). I used to sneak onto the net at work to read blogs. Now, my boss sends me links to blogs that she thinks we should read to help us do a better job at work. It's just not the same. I hate to be that guy that says, "this shit is too commercial," but when my blog becomes a target demographic instead of a place for me to make jokes about heroin, whores and junk food, I'm just not that interested anymore. I felt the same way about blogging. It used to be pretty. It used to be a sub-culture.

Enter BlogExplosion, BlogClicker, M-80 Entertainment, Technorati, RateMyBlog, Blogs on VH1.com, etc. Fucking gross.

I knew I was done blogging when I realized I spent more time wondering how to filter out comment spam than I did responding to the comments I read from humans (who were commenting for a reason besides wanting to call attention to their own blogs).

I used to sneak onto the net at work to read blogs. Now, my boss sends me links to blogs that she thinks we should read to help us do a better job at work. It’s just not the same. I hate to be that guy that says, “this shit is too commercial,” but when my blog becomes a target demographic instead of a place for me to make jokes about heroin, whores and junk food, I’m just not that interested anymore.

]]> By: Diesel http://www.thechurning.com/2007/02/23/all-alone-i-wonder-why-youre-helpless-a-brain-in-a-room/#comment-16561 Diesel Sat, 24 Feb 2007 05:07:21 +0000 http://www.thechurning.com/2007/02/23/all-alone-i-wonder-why-youre-helpless-a-brain-in-a-room/#comment-16561 I feel the same way about all those fucking books. I feel the same way about all those fucking books.

]]> By: JJ http://www.thechurning.com/2007/02/23/all-alone-i-wonder-why-youre-helpless-a-brain-in-a-room/#comment-16555 JJ Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:57:03 +0000 http://www.thechurning.com/2007/02/23/all-alone-i-wonder-why-youre-helpless-a-brain-in-a-room/#comment-16555 For the record... Advertising on a site with daily visitor counts in the hundreds (not the thousands or tens of thousands) pays zero nada zilch. I'm broke as a joke. For the record… Advertising on a site with daily visitor counts in the hundreds (not the thousands or tens of thousands) pays zero nada zilch. I’m broke as a joke.

]]> By: randi http://www.thechurning.com/2007/02/23/all-alone-i-wonder-why-youre-helpless-a-brain-in-a-room/#comment-16554 randi Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:36:26 +0000 http://www.thechurning.com/2007/02/23/all-alone-i-wonder-why-youre-helpless-a-brain-in-a-room/#comment-16554 Perhaps we're taking "blogging" a bit too seriously here? I find it a nice release and a way to chat with people who otherwise I never would have met. Even if they're talking about their cat having cancer or working out their own issues it's nice to know that people across the country are going through things similar to what I'm going through. A support system, if you will. Though I never did understand how advertising and the like worked its way into the mix... Wow. Diarrhea of the fingers much? Perhaps we’re taking “blogging” a bit too seriously here? I find it a nice release and a way to chat with people who otherwise I never would have met. Even if they’re talking about their cat having cancer or working out their own issues it’s nice to know that people across the country are going through things similar to what I’m going through. A support system, if you will. Though I never did understand how advertising and the like worked its way into the mix… Wow. Diarrhea of the fingers much?

]]> By: mojotek http://www.thechurning.com/2007/02/23/all-alone-i-wonder-why-youre-helpless-a-brain-in-a-room/#comment-16552 mojotek Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:54:35 +0000 http://www.thechurning.com/2007/02/23/all-alone-i-wonder-why-youre-helpless-a-brain-in-a-room/#comment-16552 I don't think its dead... but I know its changing for me personally. Reality is definitely cutting into what I used to look at as a relaxing release (blogging). Hence my few and far between posts... I hate to say it, but sometimes it actually feels like work. I don’t think its dead… but I know its changing for me personally. Reality is definitely cutting into what I used to look at as a relaxing release (blogging). Hence my few and far between posts…

I hate to say it, but sometimes it actually feels like work.

]]> By: JJ http://www.thechurning.com/2007/02/23/all-alone-i-wonder-why-youre-helpless-a-brain-in-a-room/#comment-16550 JJ Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:38:03 +0000 http://www.thechurning.com/2007/02/23/all-alone-i-wonder-why-youre-helpless-a-brain-in-a-room/#comment-16550 Holy shit. Ev posted something! I think I'm just a few steps behind you in the life of a blogger. I haven't given up or anything... but I'm definitely posting less frequently. It seems like reality is a blogging cockblock. But is blogging dead, or is this just a changing of the guard? Holy shit. Ev posted something!

I think I’m just a few steps behind you in the life of a blogger. I haven’t given up or anything… but I’m definitely posting less frequently. It seems like reality is a blogging cockblock.

But is blogging dead, or is this just a changing of the guard?

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