{"id":8978,"date":"2006-03-13T07:07:24","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T14:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/03\/13\/because-im-sure-thats-why-youre-all-here.html"},"modified":"2006-03-13T07:07:24","modified_gmt":"2006-03-13T14:07:24","slug":"because_im_sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/13\/because_im_sure.html","title":{"rendered":"Because I’m sure that’s why you’re all here"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeah, I know you’ll claim it’s because of the witty repartee, the philosophical inquiries, or the pop-geek-cultural explorations, But we really know why you visit Dave Does the Blog<\/a> …<\/p>\n

Nestled among the media’s meditations on the popularity of blogs is a theory that lends new meaning to “cyber sex.” According to Simon Dumenco, a prominent U.S. media analyst, people read blogs at least in part because they “want to get laid.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The idea being that reading blogs gives folks a better idea of what’s hot, what’s hip, and what’s conversation-worthy, not to mention just being involved with blogs gives one a cachet of coolness.<\/p>\n

David Long, associate professor of sociology at King’s University College in Edmonton, says “there are undoubtedly any number of `desperate bloggers”’ who log on in hopes of becoming “more hookupable.” But he believes they’re a small part of a larger trivial-pursuit subculture no longer willing to stand in supermarket lineups for tabloid gossip.<\/p>\n

According to Robert Thompson, a professor of popular culture at Syracuse University, the prevalence of this subculture is evident in a changing public discourse that reflects the use of blogs as both social and sexual flint.<\/p>\n

“You’re starting to hear conversation openers that have clearly been lifted from that day’s blog,” he says. “It’s kind of like going into a bar and having someone ask you what your sign is the cue is just taken from somewhere else.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cue the chicka-chicka-bow-wow music.<\/p>\n

And let me just say I’m proud to provide this public service to all of you folks out there — and any time my Most Faithful Reader wants to get a payoff for all those long hours of reading, all she has to do is drag me away from City of Heroes and I’m hers …<\/p>\n

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