very interesting (and long) essay on why nerds are unpopular. it raises many thoughtful observations, not necessarily about being a nerd, but about being a teenager in high school (either that or i find that i can relate to it better since i was more nerd than jock). it’s interesting how the writer mentions that adults don’t really understand or see the intricacies of high school societies; i can see that happening to me even though i’m only a couple of years removed. it’s unreal. i think once you move onto the “real world” as he calls it, you don’t seem to acknowledge that people can or will willingly treat people as they did in school; everyone should be grown up, more mature than to treat peers like crap. it goes on to say how the family structure in our society may be to blame for the problems teens face in school, but that leads to a whole bunch of new ideas and questions. overall, a very provoking article about a formative period in anyone’s a teen’s life in north america.

this is as big as news will get re: blogs on the net: google’s bought out blogger. unless you have your own half-working concocted solution you probably use blogger (or blogspot which is powered by blogger). that’s a huge amount of data for google to play with (blogger’s site says >1e6 users!). i read an interesting suggestion that google could use blogs to find new memes before they spread; think of it, a google memes page in addition to the google news page. that would be really cool.

indepth preview of warcraft’s upcoming expansion pack: the frozen throne on gamespy.

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: blogging, geeky, warcraft