doodledee

There's this thing in the blogging world called the Friday Five. Five questions get published on this website and you're supposed to run out and answer them on your site.

It's cracked in so many ways.

First, while I clearly write a lot of crap about Dave's Daily Life That Nobody Really Cares About, the Friday Five takes it to a whole new level. From this weeks' questions, for example:

5. Who are the last five people you talked to?

Holy crap. Do people really care to know the last 5 people you talked to? If so, there are way, way bigger problems in the world than the Situation in Iraq.

And then beyond the insipidness of the questions, there's this whole freakish culture around answering them that just seems a little too... into it. People camp on the site at midnight on Thursday to try and be the first to answer them. Then they post in the forums - frequently before they're done answering - presumably to get people to come visit their site.

Again I say: huh?

Recently, some of the more 'famous' bloggers got all academic about blogging. A couple of them tried to apply power laws to the universe of blogs - which I think some dorks call the blogosphere.

Big surprise, some websites are more popular than others. Maybe that's because some people have something to say, and other people want to tell you about the last 5 people they talked to.

"La la la la, connect the dots" - Pee Wee Herman.

On a non-blogblock note, the Huna wrote to the good Senator Dayton to complain about the Computer Owners' Bill of Rights. Hoot.