The Tyranny of Availability

So, now I'm a blogger. I've joined the blogosphere. I've become blogerriphic. Politicians will fear me. Other bloggers will revere me for my witty and insightful...

Never mind.

I'm a blogger because it's pretty easy to do. Google, the monster search engine and affiliated companies, makes it painfully easy. They have templates to make your blog look like something. They have the means to allow me to change the font in which I blog and to change the color of the fonts and the background and the borders. And, they'll host it for me so that anyone putting just the right search words into just the right syntax into Google will find my blog. The only thing Google can't do is make this or any blog interesting. But easy? Oh, yes, they can make it easy. Which is the tyranny of it.

These blogs are vanity press to the nth degree. I and thousands like me can kill untold hours sitting at the computer writing and posting on my blog the most tedious, banal, mindless drivel imaginable.

Oh. And did I mention it's free?

So today everyone has a blog. A blog about bicycles and cycling; a blog about Rastafarianism. A blog about soccer; a blog about "scrap booking." There is, more than likely, a blog about anything and everything imaginable.

And, in all that detritus, there are probably some nuggets, but not as many as we need.

I'll bet if Google or any of the other blog engines charged $5.00 a month there would be about a zillion fewer blogs.

Better it make it $10.00 a month. I'd continue doing this blog if it was just $5.00.