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February 04, 2005

Hissy Fit in the Blogosphere

Remember a few days back, I linked to a picture which overlayed a toy doll's head over the "captured hostage" that turned out to be fake.

Turns out a 13 year old boy took the image and put it on his site. Well, some blogger had a hissy fit about it, and it wasn't even the guy who created the image in the first place. HundredPercenter has a pretty good take on it.

Well, the end result is the blogger finally apologized, and the 13 year old boy had his website taken down by his mom. (Ouch!)

What's this all about? It's because the 13 year old didn't follow the rules of blogging. Whoop de do. He's 13! Who cares?! I used to end up with all sorts of things ripped off from me. Some people would just blatantly rip it off too, and I mean, even say stuff like "I ripped this idea from Mike @ XX." And you know what? I was very cool with that. I was honored by it! Here was a cool guy who looked at what I'd done and said "I like that, I want to do that too!"

And you know, I mean really, isn't that just the whole point of blogging? Aren't these people just sitting around reading each other's websites and linking to each other and it's just one big massive orgy of "I like that, I want to do that too." Isn't that what blogging really is? When I started writing my thoughts on the internet, the year was 1996, and there were maybe 50 other people doing it, at the most. Now there's millions! And really, don't they all have the exact same website, basically? I'm using MovableType because I got tired of doing everything by hand, and I finally broke down and said "I'm going to TRY to be kind of modern." And right now, because I haven't bothered fixing anything yet, it's using the default template. It doesn't even link back to the main site, or the message boards.

Besides, sometimes you just have to go with the flow. We had a guy who ripped off my parents website WHOLESALE. I mean, completely ripped off the site and just changed some of the pictures. And what could you do about it? We just had to laugh at the guy.

Gosh, I remember I had a friend who was working for Boeing, and they wanted her to design a Boeing website. I mean, like THE Boeing website. It was that long ago. And she didn't know anything about HTML. She kept calling me up asking for advice. Like she'd call up asking how you put an image in. Or a hyperlink for that matter. (Why didn't I get paid to do the Boeing website?) So finally she went to netscape.com, copied their code, and changed some graphics.

And you want to know how I came up with the design for the marchdecember front page? If it looks familiar to you, it should. I wasn't coming up with my own design very well... so I finally went and stole one. I got on the Wayback Machine, found my old website back in 2002, and ripped off the HTML. (I don't have the site on Jennifer's computer or my computer... both had hard drive crashes... the original is on a computer stored at my parents house, waiting to have it's HDD retrieved.)

I mean, seriously, this is why I disappeared from the internet for so long. Too many people are too pathetic and too immature. It's why I've been willing to grow so incredibly slowly. I'm tired of people who get so upset about really stupid stuff like this. People have to know when something just isn't worth the trouble.

Honestly, get off your computer and go outside.

Posted by March at February 4, 2005 09:05 AM

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