Now you know why IT is free

I’ve been out of town for a few days.

Apparently, Springfield’s very own tabloid (and by “tabloid” I mean a periodical that is essentially nothing more than a gossip magazine that never lets the facts get in the way of an article), Illinois Times, published a pissy little blurb about the city’s bloggers. I refuse to link to the article out of principle. Besides, I’m sure most all of you have read the article by now anyway. Seems the article called the bloggers middle-aged men who sit and type in their underpants (does anyone above the age of about six use the word “underpants”?!) and complain about what they wish their lives had become, or some bullshit like that.

Some local bloggers fought back with posts blasting the article and IT in general. I particularly enjoyed the comment saying that most bloggers have more readers than does the author of that article.

But here’s why I’m not too upset by it. A, I am a middle-aged man. However, some of SPI’s better blogs are written by less-than-middle-aged women (this one and this one are two of my personal favorites), so I can see how the generalization was met with disdain. Even though everyone knows all generalizations are true. Just as everyone knows that 87% of all statistics are made up on the spot.