Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Blogging is to journalism as tweeting is to meaningful communication.  In other words, it really isn't but people on the internet keep mistaking the one for the other.  I in my own little way am hoping to combat against this, if only I can figure out how.
Mockery might seem to be a good start, at least until one realizes  that most blogs do little more than mock themselves.
For instance, the 'writers' at BoingBoing have recently begun taking elocution lessons from Tarzan.



Now, someone could say that the nature of tweeting necessitates an economy of letter count, but the third person of the verb 'to be' is two letters long.  There is no way you can convince me that they don't have the twitter skills to squeeze in an extra two letters for literacy's sake.  And if you need further proof, the headline on their one fucking sentence post (no, really) contains the same lack of articulation.



(And no, I won't link to the original sources.  Why? Because fuck those clickbaiters.  I won't feed them anymore.)
Are they even fucking trying anymore?
In my burned-with-your-own-torch fantasies, this would blow up in their face as their recent transphobic tweet did.  For those of you who missed it
http://twitchy.com/2015/04/17/boing-boing-getting-trashed-over-disappointingly-transphobic-photo-of-a-cat/
Was the tweet transphobic?  No.  Was the overblown reaction to it lulzy?  God, yes!

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