Thought Outflux | Anirudh Sanjeev

I am extremely jealous of professional bloggers. I honestly tried making a living from writing everyday about random greasemonkey scripts and firefox extensions, and calling it news and tips. It involves a lot of patience, creativity, and one hell of an internet connection.

But still, being a smelly, impatient engineer, all I can do is analyze. From my humble rss reader, I did a quick study, and sorted items into categories. News feeds, aggregators(like digg and reddit), etc are not supported. These are only blogs, by relatively famous people I don’t know personally.

Tech news:
Apart from the apple flavoured shit that’s been floating around nowadays(see below category), this includes stuff like “shitty little webapp that helps you preserve and categorize your skidmarks now supports regular stains”
And yes, all of them have a [via] or a [source] at the end

iphone biyatch:
The kind of interest most males develop when they see a “spot” after it, apple fan’s develop when they see a “3″ before it. It’s also a coloquial name for a coloquial name for marijuana. If you know what I’m talking about, you’re too smart to be reading this.

Actually interesting:
People who make ocasional posts(remember this point, it’ll come in later), usually on a single topic on which they have real expertise in. (ex: robert’s talk)

Top n’ lists: This deserves trashing in a seperate post of it’s own, and it’s coming soon.

More webapps: This too deserves an exclusive post of it’s own.

Read this story: Links to one of the above.

“Tech tips”: How to make twitter create facebook accounts for all your skidmarks, add them to your friendfeed, and automatically digg them and upload videos of them so the whole world can see it.

bullshit

Now I know I’m pissing a lot of people off with this, but here are few things you have to consider.

1. There’s far lesser interesting stuff on the internet than there is demand for. While yes, a new interesting piece of software is out, or there’s some news story, there’s a surprising amount of shit out there.
2. The pressure on big blogs to update regularly. Any blogger worth his salt knows that it’s the frequency of posting that matters a lot. And it’s hard for small teams of individual to keep adding original content, thus they end up just linking and writing about new things they find online.
3. There’s really no expertise when it comes to the “internet”. I don’t want to sound like a douche when I say this, but spend less time randomly surfing and a bit more time learning. the internet is largely shit and when you really need something you’ll find it. And nobody cares two hoots if you know about and blog about every damn greasemonkey script out there, but everyone cares about you if you can write one.
4. The best blogs are the ones written by individuals who’s life isn’t on the line, so they can write about what they like and not so regularly.

And if you feel like disagreeing with what I said, please point me to a weblog on the comments which has 1 post/author/day (minimum) and, out of the last twenty posts, eight should be useful, original and creative.