The Furious Spinner

Our friend Jason in Denmark probably didn't realize how funny the following paragraph is, since he's a new father (and an "old" one—of a two-year-old) and, as such, a bit sleepy. But here it is: "A new blog is created every second at the moment. Every time I go to Copenhagen zoo I see a big digital display on the wall next to the ape house that shows the number of humans alive. It upticks alarmingly at about 2 humans a second. Five people are born every second and three people die. That means one in five of each new person is a blogger. Presumably the other four are trying to keep up with reading the blogs. When will it end?"

Thanks for the laugh, Jason. It is pretty horrendous, isn't it? Time to get off the 'puter and out into the sun. Oh wait. It's 100 degrees out. The sun can wait. The computer calls. One more cog in the blog machine.

May You Blog in Beauty! 3 comments

3 Comments:

Reminds me of a story I read about the current incarnation of Weird Tales. The editors said they have fewer subscribers than they have people submitting them manuscripts. Egads! The world has turned upside down when you have more writers than readers.

By  mario, at 2:19 PM  

Well, that is scary. Does this mean no one will buy our books? I feel like I'm in the Magnificent Ambersons, only I never got the perks. :-)

By  Kim Antieau, at 2:40 PM  

Is it only me that becomes conflicted between the idea of a world packed to the rafters with writers and readers (all those ideas, all that creativity!) and the fear that it would mean the act of writing would become so commonplace as to be 'demystified' and writers treated like lawyers (i.e. 'There's too many of them! Cull them!')

Maybe all these new bloggers will get fed up and quit when vlogging becomes the norm.

By  Jason, at 1:11 PM  

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