Sean’s Blog

Much to my shock and disappointment, Sean’s Blog did not make it into Time’s Top 25 Blogs this year. Well, there is always next year.

On a related note : Slashdot and Ars Technica were listed as 2 of the most over rated blogs? I’m sure if they were owned by Gawker and changed their name to The Slashdoterist the would be “Snarky, irreverent and hip”, instead of “infuriatingly smug and cares passionately about stuff you don’t care about”. Well done, sir. Well done.

I was reading a post over at the Brazen Careerist which was something I’ve been thinking about recently as well. Anybody that blogs or writes pretty much anything on the interwebs occasionally gets comments to the effect of “Learn how to spell loser” or “Your grammar sucks”. I’ve had my share. It also sounds like Penelope got one too many of those comments as well. The fact is, these comments are not only unhelpful, but they are almost saying to a writer, the only thing worth talking about in your post is how bad your grammar/spelling is.

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