Why yes, you did.... and what keeps churning around in my mind....

> Yeah. I believe I said something like that once. :)

I also read that there are TWELVE THOUSAND new blogs per DAY. That just makes me want to shriek BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA again (but I won't).

> business
> boards there were (similar to FIB) back, say, 6 years ago. Now count how
> many are left. There's just a handfull, yours included.

When I went back to find all the ones I used to "Boardwatch" about, I couldn't believe what my eyeballs weren't seeing. Almost all of them were gone or neglected and overrun with ads.

> Again, you have to ask how many sustain that. I can think of a few (like
> Gizmodo) that will and could, but they are very few. I've been reading a
> lot of research on blogs, and the really big ones tend to be current
> events ones where someone goes through the news of the day and comments on
> that; basically mini-newspapers.

That's basically what Instapundit does -- mostly two- and three-liners, many one-liners. I was shocked that it's so popular.

This is what keeps churning around in my mind:...

I'm having a personal problem with MaaMaw's Morsels right now.

I can't see how it would be possible to generate any great interest in it (publicity-wise), and I don't even write anything there that I can turn into articles. It's just pointing to other boards (slim pickins!) and blogs.

And what really drives me nuts is that I point to interesting things on other blogs, and nine times out of ten, they're just pointing to the interesting thing SOMEWHERE ELSE. If I skip them and go directly to the interesting thing, that's not fair, so I don't -- but I hate posting this stuff that sometimes takes people through three blogs to get where they're going. It's ridiculous.

(Sometimes I go right to the interesting thing and say, "Thanks to so&so for this..." which I think I need to do more often.)

I'm just in the midst of a "downer" -- disgusted with how many blogs say nothing --and I have a horrible feeling that MaaMaw's Morsels does the same thing.

I absolutely DETEST being worthless, and that's how it makes me feel when I work on it. Out Of The Crapper is different because I'm writing my own stuff and there's passion behind it and so it feels worthwhile if only to me. But the "look at this" which points to "look at this" which points to "look at this" is very distressing.

Okay, consider my guts spilled.

Luv,