April 29, 2006

More Spice Boys Slapping

Folkbum delivered a solid smacking of the Spice Boys:

Maybe covering the blogs (so you don't have to!) just isn't as much fun as trafficking in political gossip. Maybe they just don't have any respect for people like me (and Althouse) who don't get (or want) a paycheck for writing every day. Either way, their scorn couldn't be more clear. Thanks, Boys, for all your efforts to marginalize us.

I really think the Spice Boys have no idea why webloggers spend vast amounts of time writing. They could be the good investigative reporters they are and ask us, but then their conclusion (before doing any research or serious thinking) that " These guys want to go mainstream" might not be true in all cases. We don't weblog for the chicks or the fame. We do it because we think we have something to say, and weblogs make it really easy for us to say it.

I don't deny I'd love a professional writing gig. Before I die I want to have a few books with my name on it. TAM might help me reach that goal. But understand I've been weblogging over six years. If TAM was all about me going mainstream then I should have shut this place down years ago and tried something different like *gasp* journalism school. There's something very satisfying about getting an idea, stringing some words together, hitting "publish" and knowing the end product is available to anyone on the internet.

"Spice Boys Almost Decapitated by the Point as it Whizzes Past" [via Badger Blogger]