Just a blog …?

Euan Semple points me to a lovely piece by Annie Mueller.

Anyway, that’s also the story of the internet, and blogging, at least from my limited, non-techie experience. The big corporate assholes and the big piles of SEO trash: we don’t need them. The internet would exist without them. Would exist, and would be better. Cleaner. More room for cool stuff, connections, learning, sharing, growth. We’ve managed to do that good stuff even as social media became one giant trash pile, and interesting little websites became conglomerate monsters, and the deep, frenetic, and satisfying experience of sliding down curvy twisty odd and intriguing connections became a short slide to the same three websites, over and over. When you keep getting the same answer to all your questions, it isn’t because you’re asking the wrong questions. It’s because you’re looking in the wrong place for the answer.

We are the answer. The little gals and guys and gays and theybies. Even the biggest of us (and some are quite big! in certain terms of success) are still little at heart. And we’re all still hanging out here, in little corners around, wondering: Is the part I love still alive?

Sure is, bud.