tara reid owes bloggers some debt

A beacon of light that shows the power of blogs...Does this cunt Tara Reid even work any more? All we ever see of her is related to her being on some blog and doing nothing, often while wearing a bikini or showing off some new botched surgery.

Bloggers: You made them news. Perhaps it's time to let go.

~DListed~

something we never get tired of seeing

There is a growing trend amongst larger blogs and one that we would like to see stopped posthaste. The cheap pop, comment-inducing, page-refreshing, "Caption This..." post.

Whether it's sports blogs like The Big Lead, Awful Announcing (who actually numbers them like they need special archiving because they are so fucking great), and Sports Illustrated: Extra Mustard, to Dlisted (yes, again, a two-fer Tuesday for them) amongst the gossipers, and even WoW Insider amongst the nerd blogs, I mean tech blogs, it's lame, boring, and serves no other purpose than to generate cheap hits for the site and waste our time. Is your blog fucking "Highlights for Adults?"

If this trend continues then you might as well just go ahead and add "Word-Finds" and "Tell us what's different in these two pictures contests" to your blogs and make it complete.

Suck it up and stop pandering, people. You're better than that. Ot at least you should be. And the list above is not all-inclusive either. If you do "Caption This..." on your blog, STOP IT.

not news: britney buys jelly beans

While we know that some days it's hard to find interesting and worthwhile news to write about, wouldn't it be better to simply say nothing than to publish something that is mundane and pointless? Perhaps on days when the news is slow, it would be a better course of action to just wait out the cycle a little bit longer, hmm? Otherwise we end up with 256 words of fluff for a post that could have been summed up like this:

...here's Brit yesterday buying jelly beans at a mobile phone store and then later spilling her Frappuccino all over herself.

A post about Britney Spears buying jelly beans? Really? How would we have ever lived without this riveting piece of information?

Shame on you Dlisted. Your readers deserve better.