There is this trend on blogs in the past 6 months or so that is rapidly increasing and is another somewhat disappointing thing that I think brings blogs increasingly into the trivial realm.
What I am talking about is video reposting. That means just adding a link to someone else’s video to a blog post, without commentary and considering it some kind of content.
I am not talking about video blogging with original content, which is great.
This blog laziness started some time back with individual bloggers just posting quote of the day type things interspersed with their own commentary. This soon became just blogs of irrelevent and out of context quotes. Now even words of others are being dispensed with and only random videos appear, sometimes even without titles or sources-though the sources are usually YouTube. And they are generally videos of people giving some kind of talk about something or music videos. They are not juxtaposed against some other content or even another video so there is no point of interface against which to ponder them.
It just reminds me of kids pulling faces at strangers when they drive by in a car. It is random and weird. And rather lazy.
Why are these things relevant to the blogs in question? Without context they are just like a handful of photos strewn in the gutter-without meaning.
All I can do is keep putting the words out and try to buck this trend. Who knows maybe words will make a comeback on blogs some day.
