{"id":9076,"date":"2014-04-10T17:59:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T00:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2014-04-11T17:35:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T00:35:34","slug":"open-thread-we-have-to-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/10\/open-thread-we-have-to-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread: We Have to Talk."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/we-have-to-talk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9081\" alt=\"we have to talk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/we-have-to-talk.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/we-have-to-talk.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/we-have-to-talk-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/we-have-to-talk-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/we-have-to-talk-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week has been one stupid internet thing after another.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A friend told me about an offer to engage in sketchy blogging practices from a company I&#8217;d previously thought of as legit. It bummed me out.<\/li>\n<li>I got spam asking me to run a &#8220;We&#8217;re traveling the world, you&#8217;re in the rat race&#8221; <a title=\"Couples Who Think Their LIves are Better than Yours\" href=\"http:\/\/www.resolutiontweet.com\/couples-who-quit-the-9-to-5-job-rat-race-traveling-around-the-world\/?utm_campaign=quit-the-rat-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">infographic <\/a>and some of the people featured in it are people I previously thought of as stand up humans. It bummed me out.<\/li>\n<li>I made the mistake of watching the <a title=\"Jezebel on American Blogger\" href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/shitty-looking-documentary-celebrates-prettiest-lady-bl-1561673277\/all\" target=\"_blank\">American Blogger trailer<\/a>, a clip that looks more like an ad for a eugenics project than a documentary about blogging. It REALLY bummed me out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Blogger launched in 1999, I&#8217;ve been on the web since a year, maybe two before that. I&#8217;m not, nor have I ever been dependent on blogging for my living, but it has been a grand romance, truly a love affair with the media and the people it connected me with. I&#8217;ve been a fierce defender when critics have tried to paint &#8220;bloggers&#8217; with the same broad brush of sloppy work, failure to fact check, and being motivated by greed and cynicism.<\/p>\n<p>And now, I&#8217;m turning into that person who thinks that maybe, just maybe, they&#8217;re right and it&#8217;s time to see other mediums.<\/p>\n<p>Several years ago, I sold my condo in a divided 1914 house on Capitol Hill, one of Seattle&#8217;s best neighborhoods. The house wasn&#8217;t an easy place to share, but my previous neighbors were kind and we managed to get along. I loved living there but when the owner downstairs sold his unit, it was purchased by a guy who was a real asshole.\u00a0 His presence was actively degrading the quality of my home life, he was noisy, inconsiderate, rude, entitled, and when I tried to do nice things for him, he treated me like I was the help. After I moved, he used my name for mail fraud; I reported him to the police. The place I&#8217;d loved to live had been ruined for me. I&#8217;m not sorry I live where I do now, but it was not a joyful move. I was sad to leave the neighborhood that had been my home for so long.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, there&#8217;s an analogy here.<\/p>\n<p>Internet, we have to talk. Is this what we want from the web? Petty link schemes, pandering to our own vanity, and a singular, homogenous view of the world?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not me, it&#8217;s very much you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week has been one stupid internet thing after another. A friend told me about an offer to engage in sketchy blogging practices from a company I&#8217;d previously thought of as legit. It bummed me out. 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