Friday, March 03, 2006

Top 100 Blogsnobbing Pot Shooting Voices In My Head

Right, right, well Frank's obviously too busy to write up one of his usual commentaries for today's funny cartoon. So it's probably down to me to say something. Well, er, yeah, great eh? Actually, normally Frank would write some guff about the process of putting the cartoon together - maybe throw in the odd implication that I'm an utterly unreasonable bastard. Well, I don't have processes for coming up with the ideas. Often it just means getting scuttered and scribbling stuff down in a notebook. Do you want me to write about that? Do you want me to write about how I'm turning into the drunk who furtively scribbles in a notebook? I doubt it. If Frank finds a little more space in his schedule, maybe he'll write a little bit up for us - otherwise we'll just have to get on with our dreary lives without the benefits of his insight. It's a good toon though and I'm growing ever so fond of our goody buddy Clive.

Eric Burns has a more detailed post on the that whole History Of Webcomics drama guff.

Nick Wilson over at Performancing has a wee potshot at blog snobs. He's dead right and his argument could be carried over to all sorts of areas - like people who spend an inoordinate amount of time (i.e. anytime whatsoever) trying to define what constitutes a comic.

Internet marketing expert John Scott is offering up a prize fund of $10,000 to bloggers who link into lesser-known blogs, specifically those outside the technorati top 100. It's his way of fighting the incestuous nature of the top blogs. Nice idea in theory but if you go down through the comments, I suspect at least a couple of the blogs have just been set up to try win the cash. Still, no harm in it, is there?