From Qual.ms

sometimes i hate blogging. scoble nailed it this morning

thinking about rolling it all up into one crispy paper ball and throwing it into the fire.

whatever it is… i guess i’m referring to the blogging aesthetic. so completely f**ked up and unnecessary.

didn’t we invent this blog s**t to counter the stogedy crap that was flowing from the pro’s?

what happened to punk blogging?

we sold out.

for shame.

fix it?

Let us recall the roots of blogging.. Blogs originated from Zines, Chip Rowe, Book of Zines might be our key text…Fix it? Merely return to the roots, return to the muse…perhaps return to the “creative fringe”?

Quality is relative…

Amazon.com on Book of Zines
When asked why 90 percent of science fiction was crap, Theodore Sturgeon replied that 90 percent of everything was crap. With zines that figure probably rises to about 99.9 percent. Luckily, we have editor Chip Rowe to sift through the detritus of the zine world and distill this entertaining volume. Included are selections from such well-known zines as Beer Frame (wherein the author discovers the horrors of canned pork brains in milk gravy)…

Card catalog description

Just below the surface of the mainstream lies the eccentric world of zines - homemade magazines created for fun rather than profit. Distributed largely through word of mouth, zines touch on everything you’d expect from a copier counterculture - sex, music, politics, dating, TV, movies, work, food, drugs. The Book of Zines collects, for the first time, the best writing on pop culture from more than 60 choice zines, including Beer Frame, Ben Is Dead, Bust, Cometbus, Crank, Crap Hound, Farm Pulp, Murder Can Be Fun, Pathetic Life, and Rollerderby.

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