So, I've mostly treated blogs the same way everyone thought of cell phones in 1998. You remember. You swore you'd never get one of those things. They were extravagant and unnecessary. Wasn't the point of leaving your house to make sure nobody could call you? Weren't answering machines supposed to take care of those problems anyway? Plus that was when email was still a novel idea - "Oh, I'll email you." You'd said it with the tone that told everyone you were both excited about your new hotmail account (because it had your name AND your favorite number), but were also disappointed in yourself because you could still remember thinking "Man, who need's email? That's what the post office is for," in 1995.
Think back to 1997 when you saw that prick with the cell phone the size of a brick. It was in the grocery store and he smugly called his wife as if he did this all the time and asked her if they had milk or if he should pick some up. He would talk really loud as if the reception was bad (oh, you know - this modern technology!) but really it was because he wanted everyone to see him. And you probably fantasized about pushing him off an overpass onto a busy highway where a driver, distracted by trying to dial on their phone, would run him down.
And now you're blogging the new organic cereal you just picked out using email sent with your SMS-enabled cell phone. Accompanied of course, with a picture and a clever quip about society or whatever. Yea, you're pretty much that guy aren't you?
