The ShenBot

Oh! What a weekend it’s been. I am trying to drill down into these final projects and in the midst of it I had to take my cat, Larry, to the vet. That got me thinking that someone should develop a web community for cats. Oh, wait…shoot.

ANYWAY, this week I am pondering a simple concept: Why do I care? Well, you may say, “care about what?” Good question – I mean, there is a lot to care about, but today I’m wondering why I care about reading so many people’s personal blogs. And by personal blogs I mean blogs written by and about one person where it is very clearly one person’s musings on a variety of topics – OR – blogs that are supposedly not really a one person show and go under the guise of being “newsy,” but really … it’s a one person show.

Before I continue I say that I am not an idiot – I get why people, in general, care about reading blogs. It’s nice to have the horse’s mouth sharing things about…things…and we in theory subscribe to and read the ones that speak to us the most and or appeal to some part of our sensibility. Like my husband’s blog…because it’s awesome.

But here’s the quandary … I subscribe to a bunch of blogs that I actually could not care less about … and I read them. I actually read the updates because I think I will get some sort of inside scoop into my industry … or life … who knows. I came to this thought today when I read Marc Andreesen’s latest post on his personal blog about the Series D round of VC financing for Ning. This guy who has what could easily be argued as a CRAP LOAD of money just got more money for this project/product, which, of course, will most likely eventually be sold for another CRAP LOAD of money. Sometimes his posts are entertaining. But, for the most part, it’s Marc just chatting about what is interesting to him, his take on starting a business, etc. Well – who cares? But I keep READING this stuff because of announcements like the one he made today … and it all comes down to this – I’m addicted to getting the news from the horses mouth. That’s why I subscribe to Lawrence Lessig’s blog (even though he’s awesome … not that Marc isn’t … I mean, I don’t know him … but I’m sure he’s cool), or Pink Is the New Blog (more of a personal narrative/breaking news combo than Perez), or Scoble’s Blog…Whatever, you get the point.

I’m annoyed that I feel tied to these people for my breaking news. I am annoyed that I continue to clog up my netvibes page with unnecessary feeds because I’m waiting for the once in a blue moon moment when someone says something I need/want to know. I’m annoyed that people announce pregnancies and engagements on blogs and then that becomes the “official source.”

I don’t know – today, I am just annoyed at the blogosphere (except Mike’s blog cause I’m TOTALLY BIASED). Does anyone else ever get annoyed at the blogosphere?