The NY Times has an article on the concept of blog commenters as their own shtick. It seems there are even blogs out there where people will fight to see who can come up with the most smart-assy of smart-ass comments. Imagine! (No need for that here, what with me being the Managing Editor of said responsibility.) The idea for the article is that blog commenters add to the life of the blog by becoming characters in the play. They inhabit roles – dramatis personae – in our little tragicomedies. Good idea for an article – or even a sophomore sociology paper – but the Times comes off … so… Timesy in its execution:
Since many blogs have a readership of one — or, at best, the writer, his mother and some guy he sat next to in seventh grade who found him on Google — piggybacking on a more popular site offers a wider audience for a keyboard jockey’s gripes and quips.
To paraphrase a well-worn observation: You ever notice how old people repeat themselves a lot?