Alan Hood

I met you before the fall of Rome. I begged you to let me take you home. You were wrong, I was right, you said goodbye I said good night. I love Bare Naked Ladies and the band is okay too.

Alright the real point of this article is that while browsing the internet it occurs to me that everything is really just a copy of something else. Very few original ideas survive the onslaught of copycats. All great or semi original ideas are copied almost as quickly as they are applied by the original, while maybe not as well they are most certainly copied. As surly as I am saying this there is already someone or many someone’s who have already said it. I love technology and the ease at which people can access ideas, but at some point too many clones become litter. Digg.com is a great idea for focusing attention on popular stories, but 1000 digg clones is litter. Why do people or more importantly corporations feel the need to always compete with the joneses? If you can’t do something better then come up with your own idea.

Facebook does what myspace only dreams it could do, so in some spaces a clone is a good thing. But not usually. The internet has given voice to many people who would probably not otherwise have the means to express themselves, but too many people singing the same rhetoric just becomes a cloud of noise.

I guess that’s why my blog this one in particular seems so completely unfocused. I don’t have a grand plan; I just enjoy writing about the things that interest or annoy me. Stats show that quite a few people read this blog on a regular basis and I hope they enjoy what they read or it at least stirs a little fire somewhere within them. At times I take a controversial side to an issue and don’t mind telling everyone why I think I’m right, but at least I am not unoriginal. I don’t care about the Joneses and I don’t care if people don’t like what I have to say. I do care about many things but I don’t care to read anymore unoriginal blogs.