Bob Ross has been a longtime friend and sometime critic of mine. He is the most devoted publisher of Spurgeon since Passmore & Alabaster. He's also a prolific writer of passionate commentary on just about everything, ranging from serious theological aberrations to little things that just get under his skin. He's a kind of fundamentalist Andy Rooney.Well, Bob must have heard I started a blog. He broadcast an e-mail this morning that included this:
The blogging fad does appear to have something in common with the message board: it seems to bring all sorts out of the woodwork. Finding something of permanent value in blogdom is like discovering a jewel of gold in a swine's snout. You wonder how it got there.
Bob himself doesn't blog, but if you want to get his regular e-mail updates on what's wrong in the universe, you can sign up at his website.
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The blogging fad does appear to have something in common with the message board: it seems to bring all sorts out of the woodwork. Finding something of permanent value in blogdom is like discovering a jewel of gold in a swine's snout. You wonder how it got there.
Bob, does not to appear to be very educated about blogs.
I repeatedly find many gems at....
Gad(d)about
Transforming Sermons
Jollyblogger
Shizuka Garden
Out of the Bloo
Mr. Standfast
Coffee Swirls
The skeptic in me wonders how much is envy involved here, particularly with this last sentance in the quote to which I would reply: Bob if it's a gem, it's a gem.
Furthermore, this statement seems to be directly lifted from Proverbs 11:22 (as a ring of gold in a swine's snout, so is a lovely woman who lacks discretion). Beyond the poor application of the verse, what is Bob saying here? We all lack discretion? Some of us certainly do, but many do not and to make such a blanket statement and stereotype speaks volumes of how much Bob understands and reads in the blogosphere.
Bob also forgets that unlike his email list, blogs are open and fair game to criticism which is a refershing avenue of public correction that is rarely available from the closed form of media he currently uses.
Whoa, for a second I thought you were talking about the happy-little-tree painting guy.
Um, carry on...
Blogs may be here to stay, but let's not say that it isn't a fad. It definitely is. Everybody and their brother thinks that they're king of the mountain and everyone should listen to them. Half of the blogs that exist now won't exist next year. I think Andy Warhol said that in the future everyone would have a blog for 15 minutes.
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