Weblocked

Posted by bronson Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:22:00 GMT

I must invent a word to describe the condition that I suffer from. I shall call it being weblocked.

The healthy adult male will normally collect articles from his surroundings, digest them a bit, and deposit them into his blog. Occasionally, however, an article may be delayed for some reason. Maybe a picture needs to be rotated or a panorama stitched together. Maybe it’s the utter horror of the event or maybe it’s just laziness. For whatever reason one article just sits there and doesn’t get written. Subsequent articles pile up until the blockage is resolved. The more articles get blocked, the harder it is to resolve the blockage.

I’ve contracted this disease twice now (February and June, 2006) and it has been ugly both times. The cure? Just remember that blogs are stupid anyway. Why try for perfection? Smash it out, whatever you’ve got, and get on with life. A ton of imperfection beats a small amount of perfection, Google and Craigslist have shown that. Just don’t take that lesson too far!

And wouldn’t blogstipation be a more obvious and appropriate term? Too late. Bloggers have decided that “Writer’s Block” is not blogtastic enough and took it first. Problem is, their version of blogstipation describes the condition of a lack of material whereas the original term describes a crippling overabundance of it! Yes, all bloggers are stupid.

Well, maybe not so stupid. A beautiful definition by example can be found on blogstipation.com.