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Finally, A New Post!
It seems that over a month has elapsed since my last meager update. I've had plenty else to do, but there can be no excuse for such a vast temporal chasm — especially not here in the high-flying virtual amusement park we call the World Wide Web. It's an odd thing, really. A delay of a few seconds in loading a web site makes people cringe, and the sites that go without an update for more than a few weeks are usually forgotten. Offline, though, we subscribe eagerly to our monthly magazines and trod patiently through the week waiting for our favorite sitcom every Thursday night. The pace of the Internet, by comparison, is breathtaking. I fear Acceity has lately been left behind.
Of course, this was never meant to be an hourly or even daily blog. Plenty of sites already specialize in continuously pumping content into a trough for mass-consumption. We all put up with it, myself included, and we can't seem to help pressing our mouths to the RSS-feeder and slurping up thirty second YouTube videos and rehashed AP stories, worthless top ten lists and mundane Flash games. Our brains are fed with dog food.
I mean for Acceity to be place aside from all that, a quiet stop along the Internet's equivalent of a winding country lane. Though perhaps this can't be a web journal where every posting is lovingly hand-crafted by a team of expert wordsmiths, I do hope that it can be a smart, thought-provoking, and refreshing place for you to stop and ponder. The pace should be slower here. Still, I realize that my visitors will need something to ponder about. That's why the delay since the last update was so inexcusable. Now, though, with the holiday break providing ample time to think, I'm certain that I can post a little more often. In fact, I'll make a promise: there will be updates twice a week from now until the end of January. It's up to you to keep me to my word.
Best wishes until next time.
2 Replies to "Finally, A New Post!":
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Eric wrote:17 December 2008 — 5:18 pm
Like you said about every Thursday being a sitcom or the monthly magazine, do you think that the quality of the daily posts on the internet versus the monthly release of a magazine can be related to how often information is released? People wait for the summer blockbusters, but people also wait for the news daily. Is something that happens few and far between always have more quality of things that happen way too often, or is it just the fact of how often that these things happen to how we categorize quality? Is it perhaps the fact that anyone can post a blog, perhaps lowering the expectation of quality as well as the fact that writers and editors produce television shows and magazines?
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Josh wrote:17 December 2008 — 6:03 pm
Well, that’s an interesting consideration. I do think that many things can best reach their potential if a lot of time is put into them, and I think that the reason many things online are rather dubious in value is that people who create them are more concerned with speed than longevity. At the same time, I disagree that quality and quantity (or in this case frequency) have an inverse relationship by default. There are lots of bad TV shows, movies, and magazines, regardless of the release interval. Think of all the stupid comedy and action flicks, consider the tabloids, remember the sleazy soaps, ridiculous talk shows, and awful “reality” shows that dominate TV. So, really, I don’t think anybody actually likes more than a tiny minority of what is out there in any category — although there is something out there for everyone. What you should really take from my blog post is that, whether magazine, film, or sitcom, we wait for content that we really enjoy. And I hope, perhaps erroneously, that my posts are worth waiting for.