The following topics are completely over-blogged (somehow perpetuated by the collective unconscious of bloggers, like this one, everywhere). While there are many more topics easy to groan at, these five stand above the rest as burnt-out blog fodder in the spring of 2009:
1. Twitter. Who could possibly not be sick of hearing themselves talk about tweeting and how it's revolutionized communication?
2. Generation Y. I love the spirit of Generation Y (thus this blog), and analyzing how the group will shape society, but I'm over trying to pin personality characteristics on the generation. We mine as well be talking about horoscopes.
3. Recession. From eating to sexual habits, everything is related back to the recession. Some of the generalizations feel valid, but a lot of it's overdone. In our urge to pin a historical name on our present existence, we might not even realize when we are out of the recession (technically). We have no idea how history will look back on this period. (But yes, I know it's fun to talk about our Obama-era, post-Bush, globalized, recessionary, post-9/11, millennial existence.)
4. The death of the media industry. News is apparently ailing and yet we've heard about its slow death incessantly.
5. Blogging. The old poem about writing poetry is seen a lot in the blogosphere ... We've come full circle.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
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Hey Ellie -
I'm guilty of blogging on every single one of these topics. But I am (trying) to get away from the norm. It seems, everywhere you turn, originality is really lacking in the blogosphere these days. Is it because originality is lacking? Or are these the topics that people really just WANT to read because they can connect with them? They have opinions, they'll leave comments, lend their thoughts to a discussion, etc?
Matthew -- I am so guilty too! I can't figure out whether we should be quitting these topics, or simply trying to find creative angles to them. As I said on Twitter, I think maybe we do want to read these "unoriginal" topics. It's also easy as bloggers to get caught up in the topics you know people will read. Thanks for your insight!
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