blog

From Interdex, the community-edited guide to the local internet.

Strictly speaking, a blog is a site with journal-style entries displayed in reverse chronological order. In reality, nearly all blogs are about politics, current world events, and the banal lives of their authors (bloggers). Most of them exhibit absurd political biases, and are not interesting whatsoever, as they tend to post the same news stories over and over. However, bloggers usually believe that they're "true" journalists who are better than traditional news outlets despite holding themselves to no standards whatsover, and this arrogance makes blogs all the more repulsive. Typically, blogs use WordPress, Movable Type or Blogger as software, which only adds to their homogeneity. Most of them contain comments written by visitors that are ten times as long as the actual content and cannot be hidden. If you never saw a blog in your life, you truly would not have missed anything.

The terminology of blogs is one of their most obnoxious aspects. Before the word "blog" was coined, writing something on the internet was generally referred to as writing something on the internet. Now, nearly every site with a person writing something is referred to as a blog, regardless of the accuracy of this designation. Bloggers also created the term "blogosphere" to describe the entirety of all blogs, although it probably would have been better for them to split off from the World Wide Web entirely. Traditional news outlets will occasionally mention the blogosphere nowadays, despite its complete insignificance.

Intellectual Elite is a collection of blogs which display every negative aspect of blogging. Rarely, EMPTV is referred to as a blog, but this is inaccurate and should be avoided.