Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Name These Things (First In A Series)

The following are "things" that I don't know a name for. However, maybe one already exists, or if not, then perhaps we can all make one up for each. You tell me.
  1. Missing one or more blog entries because you think you're caught up (as you read backwards chronologically) but in reality you've simply gotten back to a post that you started to read earlier before being interrupted. Therefore you miss out on whatever was posted earlier, and are plagued by oblique references to posts that you don't even know exist. Obviously this doesn't apply if you get your posts through an aggregator of some sort.
  2. When a blogger or site owner ends a long period of inactivity by posting an apology for being away so long with a promise to communicate more frequently from now on... only to enter another long stretch of nothingness! I've seen this enough times that there must be a name for it, mustn't there?
  3. That moment when you realize that some bit of information or entertainment has gone from being something that you and a select few knew about or were interested in to something that your mother or next door neighbour might mention the next time they see you. This one can go either way: sometimes it's very cool to see "your" thing go viral, but oftentimes it's just downright annoying.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

nominating either jumping the shark or going mainstream for item 3... At this point it is usually best to move onto something else, as the item you are interested in no longer has the obscure appeal it once did. When you don't have to explain in great detail what you are interested in there's no point, although you can reference in passing... "Oh yes, Y, I read/watched it when it first came out but now I'm into X which is sooo much better..."

Vicki said...

1. Hey I do that all the time. I missed this one because of the very amazing sand video before it. Skip-blog?
2. Blognation....because blogcrastination is just too long.
3.Jump the shark made me laugh. Fad comes to mind. What was the first thing that started to do this jumping to the mass media? Valley girls reference? Groovyism?