Steven den Beste delivers the bad news.
A book that provides an interesting perspective on these kind of phenomena is The Deviant's Advantage, by Watts Wacker and Ryan Matthews. Wacker and Matthews trace the flow of products and ideas from the Fringe, to the Edge, to the Realm of the Cool, to the Next Big Thing until finally coming to rest in the stagnant waters of Social Convention. It's a fun read — the authors trace the progress of ideas as diverse as Las Vegas, evnagelical Christianity, and Hello Kitty.
I guess with Mr. G.'s announcement, we can say that blogging is rapidly moving from its Next Big Thing status into the realm of Social Convention. This is, indeed, disturbing news for den Beste and all the rest of us deviants. Is it time for us to go back out to the edge and look for something else to do?
Haven't read this book, and it saddens me to be thrown back to the lowly stratus of mere social convention, but I think blogging can still be edgy if the bloggers are. The blogging medium isn't mundane ... people are mundane.
But I don't read blogs more than once if they have banners like "I Shaved My Legs For This?" catchphrase "moaning and insights from a PMS world" or something like that. There are far too many blogs with deep, articulate insights concerning the things I'm passionate about. And if I can't find a post about it, I'll write one. Like sex and chocolate cake.
But you guys at the Speculist are certainly doing your part to keep blogging "out there." And I mean that in the best possible way.
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