The Eclectic

I am dissillusioned about the lackluster popularity of this blog, at present. Statistically, I have grossed a whopping three comments, but it’s not the number of comments I’ve recieved that I protest. It’s their content and origin. Out of the three comments I’ve recieved, two have been automated advertisements sent from dead-end Blogger accounts. Two out of three, people, that’s more than 66%.

The first thing I’d like to know is, what kind of crappy SPAMing script are these companies using, anyway? These companies posted to a blog that was probably recieving about a hit a month, and only had one ligitimate reader’s comment. That’s like erecting a billboard for furnaces in the middle fo the Sahara. I could write a better auto-advertisement algorithm in my sleep!

Secondly, how low are companies going to stoop to get their name in your face? Viruses, SPAM, adware, spyware; hyperactive Internet advertising seems to be every corporate giant’s new hobby. Not only are they finding new and interesting ways to invade your privacy on a daily basis, they’ve collectively conjured entire new counter-industries. Some companies do nothing but make software to combat these tyrants, knowing full well that if their products really worked, they’d go out of business. It’s like Nicorette’s stop smoking “aid”; “we want you to stop smoking, but not all at once, and feel free to encourage others to start.”

When I signed up to get a weblog at blogger, I was looking forward to joining well-serviced online community, independent of banners, popups and advertisments. In fact, the only reason I joined was because it seemed like a convenient way to maintain a personal site now that it was a no-cost ad-free way of doing so. I guess my optimistic naiveity was just one step ahead of my cynical realism on this one.

If you want to visit the creators of my new found cynicism, please hack, nuke, or otherwise attack this site and Energy & Asset Technology, Inc.