The World’s Most Boring Bloggers Issue #1

December 2nd, 2005 Posted by Cowboy under Blogging, Blogs, Useless Reading

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Name: Jason Kottke

About: Jason Kottke has been blogging since March 1998. He was one of the first out the gates. But that doesn’t make him interesting. In fact he is one of the most boring bloggers on the internet. And yet he is one of the most popular. What does that say about his readers? They are idiots. Do they actually read that crap. Let’s take a closer look. Here he talks about the vehicles he drives while on vacation. and here he talks about the evolution of spam.

I admit that when I first started reading Kottke.org I enjoyed it. He was one of the first bloggers. But that sure as hell doesn’t make him interesting. In fact he has morphed into a complete vanity blogger. All he talks about is his life, his vacations, and how much fun he is having spending the money his poor readers have given to him.

Real World Analysis: Jason Kottke in the real world would compare to a hobo. A very special hobo. He would be like the inventor of panhandling. Basically if you are the first on the corner you get all the change. It drastically changes everything. And truthfully you can’t give it up. You are no longer homeless, but you are still a panhandler albeit a famous one.

Sloganizer: “Everybody knows your name.”

Details:

  • type: Vanity
  • technorati Rank : 17
  • site: kottke.org
  • joab labs rating: 14.26 out of 100
  • replacements: workboxers,itsuseless
  • conclusion: He is fucking boring. And his readers suck. Because they keep coming back for more. Haven’t they heard of Fine Fools, hell b5 is better than that shit.

Research provided by Joab Labs.

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20 feisty cowboys

  1. He’s still blogging?? I’ve got his blog in my bloglines feed but he updates it so rarely I though he must have been hit by a bus, or maybe its just sooooo boring I didn’t notice the content :-)

    Duncan said this on December 3, 2005 12:03 am

  2. I would have to agree

    Jesse said this on December 3, 2005 12:51 am

  3. Is he drinking a bag of piss?

    Scrivs said this on December 3, 2005 1:52 am

  4. @Duncan: isn’t that because most of what he posts are Asides, and they don’t show up in his feed?

    SpiderMonkey said this on December 3, 2005 9:36 am

  5. Seriously, is he drinking a bag of piss?

    Scrivs said this on December 3, 2005 12:21 pm

  6. What’s wrong with having a blog that isn’t entirely technology focused and instead focused on a technology driven life. Blogs are people’s perspective on _____ (whatever they blog about), so while he may be off traveling the world, you get to see his perspective on different things. That’s the key word. Kottke is popular because he is different from the mass of blogs all talking about the lastest ajax/windows/apple/web2.0. I continue to read Kottke’s writing because it’s different and it’s written at an intelligent level.

    But really, that does look like a bag of piss.

    Daniel Nicolas said this on December 3, 2005 1:32 pm

  7. I dunno what anyone else thinks, but if that’s piss, then he must have gotten it from a technician at a nuclear plant. I can’t come up with any other reason for its luminosity.

    SpiderMonkey said this on December 3, 2005 2:50 pm

  8. Yeah, and that post about spam? God. Boring. Big deal! But it reminded me of this post about spam, which is much better because it was answered by a smart-ass advice columnist. Her reply is great.

    mel said this on December 3, 2005 4:20 pm

  9. I’m not sure, but I think I used to date him.

    ME Strauss said this on December 3, 2005 8:41 pm

  10. Spidermonkey: After piss ferments, it attains a high luminocity that is not easily replicated

    Daniel Nicolas said this on December 3, 2005 9:04 pm

  11. It’s piss.

    liberalcowboy said this on December 3, 2005 9:13 pm

  12. That is what piss looks like when one doesn’t ingest enough water. The container itself is really interesting, no? Is that a plastic tail hanging from the bottom of it? I can’t make it out … but you can sort of see it dangling in front of his strap.

    Shawn Anthony said this on December 3, 2005 11:18 pm

  13. It’s a piss bag.

    liberalcowboy said this on December 3, 2005 11:20 pm

  14. Then again, his fiancee is cute.

    Very web 2.0 though

    Matt said this on December 4, 2005 12:28 am

  15. She is not my type of girl. They are a web 2.0 couple though.

    liberalcowboy said this on December 4, 2005 12:39 am

  16. I can tell you exactly what’s going on here. You see, when Jason decided to go full time blogging and ask for donations, he didn’t even come close to getting the cash he wanted. So, in order to bump up his income, he started taking these overseas trips and documenting them on his blog as ‘vacations’. But that’s all just a clever ruse. What he’s actually doing every couple of months is taking no-questions-asked orderly work in shifty-looking backstreet ‘hospitals’.

    This latest ‘job’ involved changing elderly peoples’ ostomy bags. And in that pic, we’re seeing him take a full one out to empty it into the drain across the street. Like I said: no-questions-asked. However, with money being tight and all, and with orderly work being a thirsty business, Jason couldn’t help but take a quick, inconspicuous sip as he crossed the street. Filthy, I know. But when you’re thirsty…

    Barry Bell said this on December 4, 2005 3:48 am

  17. When you’re thirsty … don’t ever think about drinking old people’s piss

    Daniel Nicolas said this on December 4, 2005 5:50 pm

  18. I KNOW I can pull increasing traffic numbers without drinking piss. I think I can, I think I can, I think I can…

    Chris P. said this on December 4, 2005 10:05 pm

  19. I totally agree with the boring and hobo tags. I did try to read some of his articles. For example the transport article make a long list of repeated vehicles. What the…?

    Totally waste of bandwidth.

    AURUM3 Movies said this on December 5, 2005 3:56 am

  20. kottke.funny = FALSE
    return = FALSE

    Chris P. said this on December 5, 2005 9:53 am