Told or Known

from marco:

A lot of people are talking about this article on Tumblr. I read a **lot** of articles on the internet, and I don’t have time to read everything I’d like to. As I begin to read an article, I quickly evaluate whether it’s worth finishing or abandoning in favor of better things to read. I stopped reading this article here:

Nothing posted on a tumblelog is original content. Tumbleloggers are a bunch of people sitting on the internet, expending just enough effort to click a button on their bookmarks toolbar and typing in “Awesome, found on Digg.”

Without elaborating past the point of boring my readers, that’s far too ignorant, short-sighted, and generalized to lend any credibility to this author whatsoever. It’s not worth my time to finish reading an article from someone who actually believes that.

Thank you, Marco, for putting that so succinctly. That was the precise point where the author lost me as well, but I unfortunately finished reading the article. Time well saved for you, though. It doesn’t become any more enlightened after that.