I Blooog

March 27th, 2009

John Gruber:

There is an easy formula for doing it wrong: publish attention-getting bullshit and pull stunts to generate mindless traffic. The entire quote-unquote “pro blogging” industry — which exists as the sort of pimply teenage brother to the shirt-and-tie SEO industry — is predicated on the notion that blogging is a meaningful verb. It is not. The verb is writing. The format and medium are new, but the craft is ancient.

That’s why I refuse to say that I “blog.” I do not. I am a writer, and it happens to be on a weblog. “Blogging” is a euphemism for worthless writing.