Kent Newsome has a great post today on blogging and fun. You should read it. But, because you won't, I'll give you some choice cuttings: 
"I've noticed a trend lately when reading my feeds. There are so many bloggers churning out earnest posts about supposedly earnest products and events that the fun quotient in the blogosphere is really taking a hit. My feeds look like hundreds of little sleep-inducing Wall Street Journals."
"But fun makes the earnest blogger uncomfortable. This is serious stuff for him, and he believes that serious and fun just aren't compatible. It saddens me to see all this brainpower, potential and effort directed at something so...indistinguishable."
"Otherwise, you're just another boring newspaper nobody wants to read. Fun beats smart every time, and in every way."
That's a manifesto I can live by. Yesterday, I wrote about Scientology (assholes), Jerry Falwell (a man who was shockingly close to being like an STD) and, of course, the HTML Working Group. I take none of this with much seriousness. In fact, there's very little I take seriously.
Then again, I have a feeling that the blogs I prefer to read are the ones which are liberal in their use of words like 'bullshit' and '[arse/ass]hole' than the ones who think that every new social networking startup out of the Valley is going to change everything. This is one of the reasons I listen to Yeast Radio.
