True story: Sunday night I sat down committed to get Got going (Got is short for Got Beeler, get it?). Swear to Gawd if there isn’t an email in my inbox that had the subject “Just stop blogging”. And with that I was done for the night.

I come to find out a Wired article is calling blogging passé (now that I’ve been to Europe, I have to spell words like passé correctly). Apparently all the cool kids use Twitter, Flickr and Facebook.

Now a month ago, I would have held the company line (I worked for Advance Publications which publishes Wired) and immediately shut the site down. But no more. I’m a changed man. I will do what I want and say what I want (except of course what I’m not allowed to say per my agreement with my current employer like calling AdMonsters, “AdBeeler”).

Quick tangent - I am loving parenthesis today (I don’t know why - I just am).

First, I decided to only read the first 140 characters of the Wired article - the limit it would have if it were on Twitter:

Thinking about launching your own blog? Here’s some friendly advice: Don’t. And if you’ve already got one, pull the plug. Writing a weblog t

That proved to have little for me to make fun of, so I scanned the article without really reading it. I find that facts tend to get in the way of me making an argument. This is what I have to say to the guy who wrote the article (I didn’t bother remembering it):

If you look at the origin of the word “Blog” it’s “Blah” spelled differently with a “g” added to the end (no one knows why). That’s what a Blog is…it’s blah. And Mr. Guy-who-wrote-the-article, I blah. I blah blah. I blah blah blah!

The word “Twitter” on the other hand has the word “twit” in it. Touché! Bien fait! L’État, c’est moi! I rest my case.

So Beeler shall blog and won’t just follow the fad of the day. But just in case, I am also on Twitter, Flickr and Facebook.