Screeds
Greg - Setting Orange, 3 Aftermath 3169 @ 07:01 PM
Did I miss a memo? Did folks have this out and come to some understanding before I got into blogging?
One of the great disappointments I've encountered as I've started paying attention to blogs and bloggers is that everyone and their dog has an Amazon wishlist.
Are we all that easily swayed by cheap self-interest? Does a wishlist really make up for their odious patent abuse? Yes? Also the fact that they loaded the opposition to their egregious patents? Well, then what made up for the spam? How about the sleazy, opportunistic pricing? Whatever the market will bear I suppose. And what's a little (probable) astroturfing between friends?
Oh, well. This is nothing new - I'm usually unfashionable. At least this time I'm not alone.
Setting Orange, 5 Chaos 3170 (Mungday) @ 06:35 PM
I was wondering about this myself. I once posted a wishlist link to my livejournal just because I was going nuts trying to find a Jack Womack book and this was the only option left, but then I wished I hadn't posted it. It'll never get anywhere near any of my Sidebars, no waaaay. There ARE other booksellers, and I dun' get why no-one links to those once in a purple moon or so.
I started using the word "Screed" a lot this year and now everyone is using it. I think I have Magic Memetic Spreading Powers. In 1990 I started calling industrial music devotees "rivetheads". 10 years later the whole world was doing it, and still is. But I was the first, or ONE of the first, to use that word in that context. There are other times this has happened, too.
