March 10, 2004
search "gossipy phrase" +blog
| Heaving onto his stomach with a contented sigh, ROB flops in the warm grass of the BACK YARD. BEES pester the TOMATO VINE. | ||
The best introduction to blog culture I know . . . the technique I use with friends and students . . . is to perform a multiple-term search-engine search. thusly . . . STEP 1 Search "gossipy phrase" +blog For example --- "just broke up" +blog "making out with my" +blog |
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| He reaches lazily for a SPORTSBOTTLE of juice and SPILLS IT, to the delight of INNUMERABLE HAPPY ANTS, | ||
STEP 2 Click on page 5 of the search results and start reading at random, based on what catches your eye in the lifted phrases. 'wordsman says he finds the best googlepoems on page 4, I tend to find the best blogossip on page 5. Go figure. STEP 3 Dive down the rabbit hole. Almost any blog will list other blogs. On a given blog, pick another blog from that person's list of blogfriends. Click on that. Find another blog on that blog. Click on that. Repeat ad hilarium. |
| Rob SMILES as he looks out into the back YARD AS IT REALLY IS today. | ||
Do bees hibernate? Hmm . . . Search: "hibernating bees" +blog? Three search results! Now that's a vibrant blog culture. |