Blog Not Needed

I’ve been noticing over the past several months that a small bit of traffic (to the tune o about 6-8%) to Diysearch comes from Crimethinc. Now, while I have nothing against their site, or their philosophy (in the abstract) I do have a problem with the extreme fallacy of their logic and idiotic (bordering on pathological) insanity that permeates the vast majority of their content.

Take for example, their “Why Fuck the Police” page. Aside from the ridiculous “workers of the world exploited by the ‘proletariat’” utter nonsense, it also condones “fucking with” the police, basically making their job impossible. Well, aside from laughing at the sheer STUPIDITY of EVERYTHING that was actually committed to “paper” I just came up with this simple conclusion: I hope these morons never get into a car accident, or have anyone break into their living spaces, or that no one abducts a loved one.

I cannot control who links to Diysearch. I only hope that those that do link to the site are as reasonable and level-headed as we are (and we really are you know) but if you aren’t, there’s very little I can and will do about it. Crimethinc, while doing an infinitesimal amount of good work (through their DIY projects) is simply just another hold-over of the ridiculous, paranoid and highly flawed philosophy that serves no one but their own egos and insecurities.

Let me put it more simply. If Crimethinc were to submit their link, it would get deleted, immediately. Why? Because they are, as I firmly believe, a hate organization. I will NOT tolerate that, not even a little. If you spread hate, fear and violence, then you have no place in our search engine.

Tis a silly thing.

My attempt:

See, I told you it was silly. I think the site is being dugg though, so it may not be working quite right.

As you may or may not know (or care), Diysearch is based in Boston (well, Central Square Cambridge to be percise) and because of that I’ve been looking around for other like-minded web projects and people and came across Boston DIY.

Not a typical “list your show” type of site, a bit more care and quality goes into this site, “there are enough places to find those show listings. ”

In addition to good quality listings and posts, there is a message board, all with a local angle. Very interesting and nice to see an active DIY ethic here (hey, I’m still new to this place!)

Well now, isn’t this interesting. I just noticed that this blog has a ranking in technorati. Currently its ranked 1,052,855, out of how many I do not know, but how about that? Out of how many blogs currently pinging Technorati, I don’t know, but that number has got to be scraping the bottom of the blog barrel.

Oh well. Instead of lementing this, I’m just going to own it. So, with pride, I will post the number clear for all (2 of you who read this):

1 , 0 5 2 , 8 5 5

I pwn the bottom of the barrel!

This project has always been like this. This has been a scrappy project from the beginning. Its almost comforting to see that hasn’t changed much.

Oh well. Such is the way of things. That’s been the story, an almost washed up has-been.

Of course the ranking leads me to question myself and ask the usual questions, like why bother keep doing this, and not just the blog, but the entire project itself. No one is actually using it - what kind of purpose is it serving? Why do I bother to put all of the work I do into something that goes unnoticed and provides no value? I sometimes feel completely ridiculous, like I’m playing some kind of role, that I’m supporting some kind of facade. I mean, I look around and I just feel like a fake, trying to collect a few scraps that fall from the internet dinner table in the hopes of being noticed by the cool kids.

Its not going to happen. Oh sure I’ll get excited about some of the new things, but the only reason I get excited is that it gives me something to do, something to produce. I know full well that the ego-satisifying goal of being noticed for a job-well-done or for providing some value or service just will not happen. I’m not smart enough, unique enough, clever enough to have what ever it is to achieve those laughable objectives.

So, here this project sits. At the bottom of the barrel. 1,052,855. Another forgetable waste of bandwidth drowning in a sea of forgetable wastes of bandwidth.

I’m not going to let this stop me though. No one may notice, and no one may actually get any value from this project, but I still do. I am still challenged. I still get excited over the prospect of building things and making them work. Does it matter that no one will use them? Perhaps not.

I have a day job. A day job is vital in that it pays the bills and enables me to do this diysearch stuff. Well, because I have this day job, which takes me through Harvard Square (in Cambridge, MA) everyday, I have been walking by something I simply haven’t been noticing. Paper Cut Zine Library. I actually didn’t know it was there until after I was looking around google for other zine resources and came accross the wikipedia page for zines, which had a link to the boston zine fair, which, as it turns out, is organized by Paper Cut.

So, I just find it quite interesting that there is a zine library right here. I haven’t been to a zine library since visiting Epicenter Zone back in the early 1990’s (in San Francisco). I have yet to stop in (well, in all fairness, I didn’t know it existed there till about 10 minutes ago) but when time permits I just may have to do that.

Anyway, if you do find yourself wandering around Harvard Square, you may want to stop by, check things out.