Top 10 Ways to Quickly Tell That a Blog Post Sucks

In no particular order:

1. There are more ads visible than actual content.
   
   This, to me, is usually a tip off that not only is this article probably %100 recycled content, but it's also created for the purpose of profits and not education or a genuine interest in writing.
   
   
2. There are pictures of over-sexualized women everywhere, and not just in the ads.
   
   This usually indicates that the organization providing the hosting for this particular content is sexist, and therefore failing miserably to make it out of the 20th century. Too bad for them! They're going to die feeling very isolated and alien.
   
   
3. The blog is in a 'Top (NUMBER) Subject Here' format. No wait, that's a good blog post, right?
   
   This type of blogging is a cheap method for shitting out words. A monkey could do this.
   
   
4. The title of the entry is an opinion that is plainly bigoted.
   
   It seems fairly obvious, but sometimes I get sucked into these posts. It's usually about halfway through them that I realize that I've been sucked into a pit of dispair, and that I have to try to escape.
   
   
5. The blog is written by a white male, and the subject has to do with 'girls'.
   
   Isolated, swimming in privilege, and now with a side of rape-apologist ranting! You won't get anything good out of this, move on to better things. Don't fall for it! Don't leave an argumentative comment! Let the poor bastard stew in his own juices.
   
   
6. The entry is some sort of scientific thing, but there are no sources cited.
   
   It's easy to check. Just scroll to the bottom, and see if there is any sort of reference list. There often isn't, in which case you're reading derivative trash anyways.
   
   
7. The entry cites a single scientific study, and makes a bold, definitive statement about it.
   
   This usually ties back to the bigoted title one. 'Studies show that women actually belong in the kitchen!' is the sort of thing I'm talking about.
   
   
8. The blog post is clearly just a bunch of art not created by the blog author, which has been popular on the internet now for some time.
   
   You know what? Let the artist's site get those hits you asshole! They don't have ad words on their site because they look good! You need to let artists soak money from their own fame. Don't waste your time on a blog post with an artist's work, but NOT BY THE ARTIST.
   
   
9. The blog post is about someone famous, but there is clearly very little actual interview material, and also very little about what they do.
   
   The popular format for transcribing an interview is pretty easy to spot. If the author dawdles for three or more paragraphs about what kind of beer a famous person drinks, or what color their living room is, you're probably wasting precious moments of your life reading the article.
   
   
10. The title has serious grammatical problems.
    
    I had to put this in here for two reasons. Now, here are the top two reasons why I had to put this in here!
    
    1. Sometimes I get sucked into articles with bad grammar in the title because I am naive, and I wonder if the writer is a true artist, pioneering a new way to write. Or: I consider the possibility that I was doing it wrong all this time, and here is this person who is rescuing me from MY bad grammar. These are never the case. Bad grammar in the title just means shitty writing all around.
    
    2. I needed a tenth item in my top ten list! I can' just create a top 9, now can I? Huh?
    

Links:

• 7 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Help a Girl Move - Don't read this, unless you like to get really mad. This kind of sexist crap is what makes modern society so ugly at t8imes.

Hurry Up & Get a Job! No, Wait! Work on Your Portfolio and Resume Until They Are Perfect!

The internet is always full of advice. In fact, it's full of -all- of the advice. Evar. Any advice that could possibly be given is available on the internet. This makes the internet kind of useless if you don't already have some sort of idealogical predisposition in a given venue.

I'm an artist, and I've just lost my job, through no fault of my own. Currently I'm torn between attempting to get a job as fast as possible, and patiently sitting down and working on my portfolio. Both seem like a good idea. Both seem like a good idea right now. They are, however, mutually exclusive. If I apply for a job that I want right now, while my portfolio isn't as good as I'd like it, I will have been on the ball for a moment, but it's less likely that I will actually get the job. If I wait, myself and my partner become more broke. We already, after only a week of my unemployment, are pretty hard up.

What to do, then? Go broke quickly while trying to do right? Or just sh*t out applications until some employer is gullible enough to think my current portfolio is good. Do I really want to work at a place that likes my portfolio in its current state?

Back to the internet being a collection of all advice ever. I looked this up, to see what bloggers and various other content publishers are saying about this dilemma. They say that I should do one or the other, but they say both. Wait for the perfect job, and settle for the next job you get. F**k you, the internet. You're not actually useful after all.

We already knew that, though, didn't we? I mean, the primary revenue for online companies at the very beginning was pornography which, let's be honest, is just a massive documentation of the oppression of women. What has it moved on to? People in the current up-and-coming generation (the 21 to 24 year olds) think that the internet is better than a library. Have they been fooled?

Yes. Yes they have. Seriously, you can't just take a bunch of sensationalized magazine-style articles, covered with advertisements and stuffed with rhetoric, and assume that they're as good as a book. The internet has positive elements in it, but seriously, to assume that print media will disappear? If the only source of information we had was the internet, we'd be in trouble.

Where was I? Oh, right, I'm talking about not having a job, or something.

Also, you can tell the internet isn't the be-all end-all, by the number of rape jokes splattered everywhere.

I can't get a job, because I seek advice from a magazine ad-covered collection of rape jokes.