Nowadays, Internet folk tend to filter into one of two categories:
 
Category One:  The quasi-tech savy blogger / web developer who spends his or her days trying to make any sort of noticeable splash in the great HTML filled pond of the web.  This person is convinced that his/her blog idea/web design is unique, fresh and cool (‘the next Perez Hilton!’ they might ironically say) instead of the cheap, hackney rip-off it usually turns out to be.  I’d like to generalize this type of web user by saying that they shop at Urban Outfitters and aspire to be one of those ‘unassuming hipsters’ which, in reality, would just make them another one of those ‘stereotypical hipster knock-offs’….but I’ll refrain from generalizations for now.  Generalizations are cliche.

Category Two:  The quasi-computer illiterate mom / singer/songwriter / emo kid (I had heard on National Geographic that the Emo Kid was extinct but haven’t been able to confirm).  This person doesn’t know a lick of HTML and has trouble setting the background color on their Twitter profile.  Nevertheless, they overcome the obstacles and manage to bang out 670 WordPress / Facebook / Twitter / Flickr / Tumblr / YouTube / MySpace / Friendster / Blogger / BlogSpot / SpotBlog updates per day.  This is usually the person who writes about their dog, or how many stickers they got in the Cracker Jack box at the ball game and think that people are genuinely interested (“I got four likes on my Facebook post today about my new plaid cap from LIDS! I should go buy another plaid cap so everyone can LOLZ!”).  Poems about nature also tend to materialize, although less frequently than angled or slightly skewed pictures of highway signage.

The point of all this is that originality is, for lack of a better cliche, dead.  The people who try to be original end up imitating everyone else and the people who don’t try to be original (and instead try to simply be themselves) are boring, trite and superficial.

My goal with this blog is neither to be original nor myself.  I simply want to traipse around the web (and hopefully acquire a bunch of new, badass knowledge along the way) searching for the answer to an age-old(and/or relatively new) question: Is there a truly original idea left out there?

Oh, I suppose there is a third category of Internet folk that I fall into…those who just go around aggregating stuff. Those people are cool in that they at least accept the fact that no one really cares about what they have to say…might as well throw a bunch of crap into a hole and call it a swimming pool.

Handpounds,

#:-)