A golden-haired girl and I, we have a little joke about blogging. We were riffing on the idea that if you were young and lovely, recently employed at a well-known magazine, lived in New York and owned an Apple computer in 2002, creating a popular blog was ridiculously straightforward.
We made up a hypothetical blog post from this quaint era, and it goes something like this:
"Food-have you heard of it? I discovered it in Brooklyn this weekend! Do you think you would try food? Discuss!"
Fast-forward to today and every blogger is an HTML-writing, photoshopping, link embedding, monetizing, branding, logo-designing, networking, non-gluten-eating, nasty green drink-making, tomato-growing, live edge coffee table-owning mo-chine. Even the newest and most obscure of blogs makes the online presence of major corporations look prehistoric.
To prove how easy blogging used to be, I just came up with six vintage-style blog posts in six seconds! It was that easy.
2004- "Amy Butler fabric-I want to buy some and make pillows! Which Amy Butler fabric do you like best?"
2005- "Design Sponge-I discovered it yesterday! Have you heard of it? Copy and paste this URL until I Google instructions for creating live links!"
2006- "Bunting-You can hang it over your bed OR your sofa! Do you have bunting? You don't? Why not?"
2007- "I saw a girl on a bike with braids in Brooklyn this weekend!"
2008- "I went to the best wedding this weekend! The amazing bride and groom used giant balloons and mustaches on a stick in their photos!"
2009- "I discovered that you can drink out of Mason jars! Would you drink out of a Mason jar? Here is a link to the instruction on how to drink from a Mason jar!"
I bet you can think of many more! But now I'm tired, because creating a modern blogpost takes so much energy. Some day our robotic body-doubles will do it for us, or maybe we will outsource it to India. The future of blogging is anyone's guess. I just don't know what I'm going to do with all this unused bunting...
It's a good thing that I don't have a clue what I'm doing when I blog, it could get ugly...(or cool, I suppose). Monkeys and typewriters...
ReplyDeleteYou've done it again -- made me snort coffee through my nose.
ReplyDeleteAs for the bunting, ombre dye, perhaps?
Please don't quit blogging! You class up a form of expression that is, alas, often just as mundane as you satirize. Just because there are crappy novels out there, those who create amazing literature don't quit writing.
I rest my case.
L
Take a break.
ReplyDeleteI took a break, and then came back and started blogging for just me. Sort of not the point. But I sort of don't care.
Hope you continue blogging. You make it seem so easy, I could only aspire to your level of blogging. I get a tad jealous of hipster life and your literary finesse (which I lack). Looking forward to your next blog.
ReplyDeleteHa ha! Funny stuff!
ReplyDeleteyou's funny.
ReplyDeletethis is exactly why i quit blogging a few months ago! i think the future of blogs is bleak. i don't even read design*sponge anymore.
ReplyDeleteLady, you summed up my thoughts but in a much more savvy, hysterical, clever way,
ReplyDeleteAND I agree with anonymous 6 folks above.
But I think blogs just might be heading to the same wasteland where My Space now resides. Plus all the cool kids are now hanging out over at Instagram. : )
you nailed it. thank you.
ReplyDeleteThis is the best post ever. Hilarious.
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