Maybe you've noticed the webring link off to the lower right on this page that refers to Pre10tious Twits. The Pre10tious Twits webring finds it's genesis in a rant originally posted on the Kuro5hin website.
Keep reading for more on the History of Pre10tious Twits...
The title of the article is, Why Your Movable Type Blog Must Die. In it the author, one James AC Joyce,says:
You are all pretentious twats. Every last one of you. You're all latte-sipping, iMac-using, suburban-living tertiary-industry-working WASPs who offer absolutely no new insights on anything whatsoever apart from maybe one specialist field if we're lucky.
The article goes on to deride weblogging and webloggers.
Of course, there was a great outcry from the blogging community. There was
this response over at Random Fate, this one at Velociworld, some comments from Politburo Diktat and my favorite response at Wizbang.
As a further "stick in the eye" to the insulting post on Kuro5hin, one blogger who runs Arrgghhh! decided to start a webring of bloggers. The list of bloggers in this ring is found here.
If you have a blog and you want to join I would encourage you to go there right away and sign up. The currency of blogging is Pagehits and those hits come from the links posted by other bloggers. Joining the Pre10tious Twits is a good opportunity for a newer blogger to make a good investment that will pay dividends in terms of more pagehits down the road. If you aren't a blogger and are just looking for a few good posts, click on the link down there and pay us a visit!
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