Bloggin' through the Night

I have a theory;

One can either blog, or do things that are blog-worthy, but it is almost impossible to do both at the same time.

If you dare to test my theory, as may people have, you will undoubtedly discover that truly horrible consequences result from simultaneous attempts!  You will either (a) write about blogging, (b) write about web 2.0 stuff, or (c) (horrors of horrors) write a post like this one - which doesn't have anything valuable to say what-so-ever.

I think that blogging has huge parallels with CB radios of the 70's.   For a while EVERYONE and ANYONE had a CB radio.    I would guess, in fact, that millions of people had CB radios.   Kids had them, moms and dads had them, grandmas had them.   They were easy to use.   They let you express yourself via push-to-talk technology.  You could "broadcast" to anyone within 2 or 3 miles and, they could broadcast right back at 'cha.

But really, what did people talk about on their CB radios?  Sadly, they talked about CB radios.  "Hey good buddy - you're coming in loud and clear.   What kind of ray-did-dee-oh you got there?   I got me a Cobra model 263 with a hang-on dingle dangle doo".   "Well, me I got a Bearcat model 891 with a triplexing inflamitator.   I got 14 antennas on my roof, and 6 ground-straps dragging' off my bug strip.."

Once people were done telling everyone about their radios, almost everyone stopped using them.   There just wasn't anything worthwhile to talk about within the arbitrary circle of people who happen to be in the general vicinity.   People found that the only universal commonalities where (a) we all had CB-radios (b) most of us where in vehicles.   I guess there was a third commonality; (c) it sucks to get pulled over by the state police.

By the way, my "handle" (which was CB radio jargon for username), borrowed from my real name.   It was "Mercy Percy".   "Breaker breaker 1-9, this is Mercy Percy, anybody see any smokies up a head?"   Sheesh!

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Anyhow, as I was saying, I have a TypePad blog.   It has plenty of cool features.    I can use my keyboard to type things in - I can use my mouse to click on things.   I have some fancy widgets too - I could tell you about them - or you could just look for yourself.

I feel a song coming on...

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Sung to the tune of Convoy, by By Bill Fries & Chip Davis.  (popularized by C.W. McCall)

Uh, Breaker One-Nine, this here's the GarageEntrepreneur
You got a browser runnin' Pig-Pen? C'mon

Uh, yeah 10-4 Entrepreneur, fer sure, fer sure
By golly it's IE 7.0 and I got fiber clear to Level 3, C'mon

Uh, yeah, that's a big "LOL" Pig-Pen,
Yeah, we definitely got us the link good buddy,
Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a weblog...

Was the dark of the moon, on the sixth of June
In my Aeron, wearin' socks.
Cabover Pete with Adobe Reader
And a Jimmy on FireFox
We had streaming I-O, ready to go
'Bout a mile outta Shaky-Town
I sez Pig-Pen, this here's the Entrepreneur
An' I'm about to post another one...

Cause we gotta Typepad weblog, typin' through the night
Yeah we gotta Typepad weblog, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' read my weblog, ain't nothin' gonna git in your way!
We're gonna feed this weblog, with R.S.S. today...
Weblog... Weblog...

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Comments

[nakedjen]

Um, Barry?

What are you smoking?

That was, I will admit, pretty darn funny. But now I've got that song in my head and I need it out...and no, I don't want to replace it with Mr. Sandman.

[eric lobeu]

AHA!! Barry's buildin a new CB Radio! yes!

[Term Papers]

Awesome. It is amazing how some people come up with cool ideas.