HASTY’S FIFTH AXIOM OF BLOGGING

Hasty’s Fifth Axiom of Blogging is as follows:

As the number of blogs increases, the number of comments on any particular blog decreases. Furthermore, as the number of comments declines, so does the number of trackbacks, as traffic-hungry bloggers eventually decide to link only to articles at the biggest blogs. The future of blogging, then, will entail millions of bloggers linking solely to whichever happens to be the largest and most prominent blog with trackbacks turned on. Whichever blogger this is will displace Howard Stern as the King (or Queen) of All Media.

UPDATE: Jed links and comments and notes his struggles with SpamKarma, which intreprets the ‘free’ in ‘freedomsight’ as a sign that he’s trying to push pharmaceuticals or naughty pictures. My apologies, Jed; I am but a humble liberal-arts grad who knows about as much about HTML as amoebas know about landscape architecture.