Thursday, April 27, 2006

Next Blog

There are quite a few people who land here via the "Next Blog" button in Blogger, that is, the button on your top right which takes you to a random blog. And from their outclicks, I noticed that many of them continue to click on the "Next Blog" button even after arriving here. To them, I would like to ask, what exactly is it that you are looking for, man? Weren't the contents of this blog scintillating enough for your highly exacting standards? What do you want me to do, put up a sign saying "This is the best blog out there, no need to look any further?"

You know, most of us, we go clicking through the "Next Blog" button in life, thinking there's another, better, more interesting website right around the corner, but there never is. But you still keep clicking and clicking and your browser turns into a bloggy blur of websites, some laughing, some smiling, some happy, some sad, some waving at you, asking you in for a drink, some trying to get you to buy into the theory of free markets and the rest shedding precious light on the daily ablutions of the citizenry. But you don't quit, you just keep running from blog to blog, to the next blog, and to the next, till you are finally out of breath, your mouse runs out of batteries and your fingers are covered with sores.

But let me tell you something. What you are looking for doesn't exist. There is no magical blog that's gonna satisfy all your cravings, tell you the meaning of life and make you feel like you are king, all in a single Douglas Bowman Blogger template no.897. Live in the blog of the moment, man, get to know the wisdom lurking behind all the bullshit life observations. The "Next Blog" button's only gonna get you so far. Now it's time to stop clicking, settle down and start reading.

Or just close the fucking browser.

PS : Right after I wrote this post, I clicked on "Next Blog" and landed here. Someone please tell me why South Indian railway stations are so goddamn clean while everyone else in India treats their stations as if they were public toilets?

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

might fall into category "surfing", not necessarily meant bad ;)

gawker said...

If I manage to stop even one next blogger from clicking on the next blog button, then I will consider this post to be a success. And I believe I have.

Anonymous said...

exactly :))

brian jensen said...

i was trying to figure out (based on a stat counter) how people are arriving at my page via yours and other "random" blogs.

மாயவரத்தான் said...

//PS : Right after I wrote this post, I clicked on "Next Blog" and landed here "http://mayavarathaan.blogspot.com". Someone please tell me why South Indian railway stations are so goddamn clean while everyone else in India treats their stations as if they were public toilets? //

Don't u got any other question(s) after landed in my blog randomly?!

gawker said...

What to do mayavarathaan, pictures are the only thing I could understand on your blog no.

Raj said...

Gawker, what a sad, monotonous life you lead.All day long, you keep gawking at your site meter,tracking the entry and exit of all the visitors, even those transient ones who just move on to the Next Blog. Like some character in a Ray Bradbury story, sitting on a bench in a mid-eastern railway station, watching train after train go by.There's more to life than site meters, man. Take my advice. Avoid them.

gsss124 said...

that's because literacy percentage is
higher down south and also people are
not very poor, that's because of education. also, culture has an effect on human thought patterns.

gsss124 said...

that's because down south literacy percentage is higher, hence not much poverty. also culture plays an important role in human thought forming. Hence, "each one should teach one"!!