Looking through my feed updates for the day, I realised how I never have more than 300 new articles to read through. I’ve seen instances where people have had a lot of updates to deal with, and I wonder how much qualitatively enriching those updates actually are. In the past, I have spoken about the lazysphere and how bloggers should just lay off the writing if they have nothing new to add. Two years and seventy-seven feed subscriptions later, I realise how that should become a rule more than a suggestion.

The annoying part isn’t the magnitude of ‘copybloggers’ out there, but the fact that not one of them decides to add something to the discussion. Either they are actually dumb enough to think that theirs is the only blog their readers subscribe to, or they are just looking to jump on the bandwagon of a new-breaking story and hoping that they’ll land a Google gig, getting them many page-views. Page views don’t mean squat today. They don’t translate to new subscribers unless your blog actually has some content other than that day’s news-repeat to talk of. They don’t get you ad money because most of the ad services today are click-based¹. And, the top blogs already dominate the Google search ranks, so the chances of your puny blog showing up are next to none.

I am just a little tired of having 50 out of my 70 updates being the same thing, with a few added punchlines for a dramatic effect. Do the people a favour bloggers, and have an original thought once in a while. It’s bad enough we have splogs scraping our content, we don’t need zombified human bloggers doing that too.