What other job enables a manic-depressive more than one where you can make your own hours, work as little or as much as you want and literally get paid to pursue your obsessions? What other job rewards a stream of consciousness meltdown with the same pageviews and ad revenue as a well-researched piece of investigative journalism? In the business of blog building, craziness breaks through the noise like nothing else. … Well, nothing sews us to our screens like person blogging their own slow meltdown. Nothing seems as raw and authentic as a person writing unfiltered. It just happens that these people write without a filter because they don’t have one. The incentives of blogging reward not having one. The competition for pageviews above all else—because that’s where the money is—creates a race to the bottom that the crazy thrive in. They win because they can always go lower, they have no “line.”
Your Favorite Bloggers are Literally Crazy (And That’s Why They’re Popular)
REALLY want to read this article in full, but it seems to have been taken down? Or moved? Either way, the URL’s not workin’.
