Bloggers block?
June 10th, 2005Sorry for not writing this past week - was down in London for part of it for a recruitment fair (disappointing), and have been busy since I got back to Edinburgh with work, finding a new flat and celebrating friends’ birthdays. Not that it matters, really, as I have very little to talk or blog about at the moment…again… which got me thinking about a form of “extreme blogging”: an Oscar Wilde*-style thingy where you send me a random link and no matter what it is, I have to blog about it with suitable pithy commentary. I’m not sure this is such a good idea, though.
From here - ‘Wilde claimed he could discuss any subject at any time prepared or not. A companion once took him up on this claim, asking that he discourse on the subject of “The Queen.” Responded Wilde: “The Queen is not a subject.”‘
June 11th, 2005 at 01:04:06
Someone once told me that Oscar Wilde story with one slight difference. It was that Wilde was challenged to make a pun on any subject. I’ve no idea if it’s a more accurate version of what happened (given who told me it’s not entirely likely) but I thought it was worth sharing all the same.
June 11th, 2005 at 08:30:04
Perhaps the extreme blogging could be a version of the long running BBC4 radio show ‘Just a minute’ where various comedians/erudite people are challenged to speak on a subject for sixty seconds without repetition, hesitation or deviation.
Just a KiloByte, perhaps?
June 11th, 2005 at 11:39:41
My god! Just think what would happen to the blogosphere if hesitation, repitition and deviation were outlawed… it’d be, like, *kapow!* - 90% of blogs gone in a second. Oh, the humanity.
June 12th, 2005 at 22:57:30
Here’s a link to blob, I’m mean blog, about.
June 13th, 2005 at 22:10:04
Thank you for the mention, Chris, but you left out the ‘beest’.
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