Saturday, September 22, 2007

More after the jump...

*sigh* Where do I even begin with this. Clearly there are some valid uses for the "click here for more" feature, but 99% of the time (no exaggeration) it's just yet another heavy-handed way to generate more page hits. I'm not even going to bother pointing out specific examples of this because they're everywhere, and almost always only have an extra picture or two, or maybe the last few lines of text that were cut off from the post on the front page. All these are things that could make it on the front page with some better laid out posts or maybe an actual editor (oh noes).
This wouldn't get to me as much as it does if there was a good reason for not having all the content of a post right there on the front page, but the times when blogs actually post original content such as interviews that actually require lots of space, are far in between. And even then wouldn't you really want more readers to see your original content, rather than the 34th post in a 92-posts long blog circle-referencing ouroboros of redundance? OK, I know your blog is about technology and gadgets, but do you really feel the need to be the one-stop shop for everything in that domain? And that by not actually linking to the original piece of information, but by linking to your affiliates blog (that gives you plenty of traffic when you post redundant crap, so you have to scratch their back a bit too, ya know?), which in turn is a mangled quote trying to be witty, but glosses over all the relevant details (you might find them after the jump though, argh) apart from whatever the poster could glean of info from his 50 second long research of the news on, you guessed it, yet another blog, which though he's almost quoting verbatim he still has to link, because by all that is holy it would be Just. Too. Much. Effort. to actually educate himself on the subject at hand
(god forbid!) and actually contribute something of value to his readers (preposterous!) rather than being yet another node of shit in the page-hits uber alles web of cross-linking and vapid content.
Rambling now. Need coffee.
*sigh* :(

PS: The Neverending Story rocks

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