Crazy But Able

Today is the launch of the great Huffington stupid media spectacle… giant pile of satire fodder… er, weblog. <garthvoice>I guess.</garthvoice> I wouldn’t call it a weblog myself… it’s more like The Blob meets The Blog meets The Media Hype. But then, in internet years, I’m a cranky old geezer. Hey you kids! Get off my World Wide Web!

I checked the page, and I am daunted by the vast amount of text. The front page, with 40 articles, doesn’t even list all of the articles which were posted today! Most of those articles on the front page are just the first few paragraphs of huge posts. According to Firefox, the archive page for today is 188k. I did a word count on it and it’s already over 18,000 words. Who is going to read all of this?

I forsee the following possibilities:

1. It collapses under it’s own weight. Bickering and in-fighting reign. It will be the Lord of Flies of blogs.

2. The Huffington Post will continue to provide, at last count, 45 46 high quality, well written, witty, and relevant posts per day. It will take the internet by storm, and The Huffington Post will become the dominant media outlet by 2008, effectively controlling the presidential election.

3. Hey, they have 208 hojillion “bloggers” right? Anything this big can’t fail!

4. One by one, the interesting and/or insightful bloggers will leave due to apathy or to getting their own blogs. Posting frequency and quality will dwindle until The Huffington Post becomes completely irrelevant.

I put a lot of weight on 3 and 4.

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