Weblog backlash
Like anything that gets too popular, weblogs are now getting big time backlash. It used to be that nobody cared if you had a weblog or not. Now it seems like you have to either love them or hate. I don't know how many times this year I've heard, "You have a weblog, my God I hate those things!"
Some people have gone to great lengths to explain why they hate weblogs, in excruciating detail.
Now the news about blogger getting hacked is making the rounds. The slashdot response shows this backlash in action, in ugly detail.
I wouldn't want some l337 hax0r coming in and reading everything about my personal life...
Oh wait, everyone can do that.
Doh!
It goes on and on, it typical slashdot fashion. Even the editor gets a knock in, and, heh-heh, they don't have anywhere else to talk about it - here you go.
As with anything that get's over-hyped, weblogs will still be around when the bubble bursts. The same people who were they before, will still be there plugging away. A few new recruits will stick around. A lot of people will forget all about it.
It's almost like being a person who lives in a tourism driven town. You hate all the people who come in, make noise, litter, and take all the good parking spaces. But at the same time, the town would be worse off if they didn't come and spend money in your town.
What can you do?
Just keep on blogging. I don't see what the big deal is anyway. So, its a bit more personalized and person focused version of a bulletin board. People have had personal web pages for ever and a day (by internet standrds, I guess). It would almost be curious to see negative comments popping up on the blogs themselves -- has not happened pervasively yet.
Of course, I have no intention of stopping just to "please" the people who don't like it. Just like I haven't stopped listening to Erasure even though the last time everyone else heard them was 8th grade ;-)
People are just venting. It's an easy target: people are surrounded by weblogs, so they take their frusteration out on them. It could be anything.