…. even if it *is* an instant gratification information delivery system. Even if it sucks and the blogger is a retard, it’s a record of how they suck and are retarded — or that some *thing* of value, for at least one person out there, found language. It’s also why you should always credit the links you find (I have a list of linkstealers), and always thank your colleagues for tips. And don’t forget that we all talk to each other. Make a fake blog to cheat search engine spiderbots? Google will kick your ass into next week (where no one can find you). And when you fake shit for the US government on Wikipedia, we know. Lie to the public and don’t feel the need to note your corrections, then remove the page entirely and think it goes unnotced? Wrong. Blogging makes it all truthy here in the internet, even if you have to polish your information gathering shopping skills a bit. It’s high time more people got a clue about this. Bacchus has a great post about why people who treat blogging as disposable culture are slimeballs:
More Internet Vandals Go Offline
“So I notice that Panties Panties Panties has gone offline, saying goodbye thusly:
‘Thanks to everyone who wrote in expressing concern. Enough emails were received such that some kind of explanation seems necessary. We simply thought it in our best interest to discontinue the blog. We’re each okay; it was just time to euthanize it. Anyway, thanks for reading, commenting, and sticking with us as the blog evolved. See ya, motherfuckers*, perhaps in some other place, in some other guise.’
No, motherfuckers, you won’t see me. You may come back, but it will be a cold day in hell before I link to you again. You’ve demonstrated that it’s a waste of time trying to incorporate you into the warp and woof of the world information culture that is the internet.
(…) If you put it up on the internet, it’s going to stay there, or come back if it seems to have gone. In addition to the currently-active public archives like the Google cache and the Wayback Machine, there are dozens of entities spidering the web and making private archives for various purposes (commercial research, government intelligence gathering, etc.) All the data in those archives is likely to become public — and be put back up on the web — at some point in the future. Meanwhile, there are a zillion quotes and excerpts of your stuff on every blog that ever linked to you, none of which material is going away. You can’t unring the bell, and you look foolish trying.”
[read more, photo via Spanking Blog]
