reoriginalize

Some words that I would love to see retired from my existence for quite some time:

• blogosphere: We’ve got to be over it by now. How many more conferences about blogging can we realistically have? We’ve saturated everybody we needed to, we can sit back and let gigantic evil corporations force our parents and grandparents into it from now on. It is just the net now guys, just an extension of humans behind computers, and it isn’t about what “the blogosphere” says, it is about what the people behind computers say, so give us names that are applicable to our groupings like “cheaply-bought evangelists,” “desperate political attention-grabbers,” “bandwagoneers” and “socially inept twenty-somethings.”

• web 2.0: See “bandwagoneers” and “cheaply bought evangelists” above. Somehow hearing this phrase has become synonymous with listening to a company spokesperson attempting to “build a community” with me while raping all the software and projects I love in an attempt to convince people that they are open. I understand the urges to have buzzwords in every possible sentence you utter to me, but have some dignity because we see right through you. If you want to impress me, here are some buzzwords you can try out: “context-free grammar,” “naked women,” “python,” and “can I get you a beer?”

• attention owner: Okay, so I don’t ever actually hear this one, likely because I immediately attempt to find something else to do if somebody mentions anything that sounds like it could lead into a conversation about how important it is that their attention be justified, but it is so self-aggrandizing and empty that I hope it never has to reach my ears.

Just so that this post isn’t all negative…

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