Sunday, December 19, 2004
The Year of Living Bloggerously.

Short, random and idiosyncratic observations of Ozblogging 2004.
• Darp showed blogging need not be a passive activity and provided an example for us late night pyjama and dressing gowned bloggers.
• Troppo Armadillo kept adding to its stable of fine contributors.
• Back Pages became the safe house of choice during the election campaign for the lost, the lonely, the despairing, the enthusiastic, the wishful thinkers and the hopeful during the election period.
• 2005 saw a burgeoning of new blogs, with new arrivals outnumbering departures. Right, left or centre a crap blog is a crap blog is a crap blog (©Gertrude Eisenstein) but there seemed to be a healthy seasonally adjusted upswing in both quantity and quality. Many of the new blogs are rightfully nominated for The 2005 Australian Blog Awards - Nominations.
• Andrew Bolt surpassed his benchmark "Finding Nemo is Crypto-Fascist Communist Article of Faith from Central Casting" column with his participation in the blog world's "coming to a theatre of war near you for a short time only", "Pandagate".
• The copy (®™Piers Akerman) of other newspaper scribes and scribesses continued to provide rich pickings for bloggers, with Gerry winning the left's nod in a tight photo finish in Australia's premier wait for rage race, "The Cox Hack's Plate". The number of "Shorter Hendo" (©cs) postings dwarfed commentary on all the other usual suspects. For the right, Phillip Adams kept hackles rising to stellar heights.
• Vlad the Inhaler ("I don't know much about art but I know a canard when it's painted into a corner.") Nabakov continued to lead the charge in the delivery of that which gives life to blogs - Comments.
• Out in the real world of dining out, dinner parties and barbeques, when the 14th bottle of red is cracked open and the repartee, scuttlebut, bon mots, idees fixe and betes noir are beginning to flag, I am sometimes foolishly moved to throw the "B" word into the impending conversational void. Try as I might, I have yet to come up with an adequate or evangelical answer to the most FAQ, "What the fcuk is a blogger?"
Guess yerv got to be one to know one ... but I keep rabbiting on, undeterred by the sound of many glazed over eyes not clapping.
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