Michele’s Freeminding

Every now and then I’ll feel a bit guilty for stopping regular activity on this blog, but then it occurred to me that most of the regularly updated blogs are just re-publishing old news.

Today is a perfect example of this: how many people wrote about EMI and Apple’s recent announcement about DRM-free music on the iTMS? and how many of them did add anything interesting to the story?

I’ve read the same news in tens of blogs — and mind you I don’t follow that many — and most of them were just reporting it, barely quoting the announcement and linking to some online newspaper.
That’s what online newspapers are for. So if you can’t add your twist to an old story, please, just shut up!
If you’re the one breaking the news then kudos to you, otherwise, it just seems to me as a very serious case of diarrhea of the mouth…

I know I’d done this in the past. Writing about the latest Apple news, the latest web app, and just about anything everybody else was writing about.
And sure I was updating my blog daily, but for what purpose? a mere exercise of writing? carbon copying from Slashdot, NYTimes or whatever?

I’ve really come to a point where I post just every now and then — even though I’m currently trying to get more committed to this –, but at least I’m, hopefully, writing original content — or at worst pimping my own ventures. ;)

Am I the only one noticing this?

This post was written 1 year, 4 months ago on April 2nd, 2007 late at night.