What's the Deal with Credibility?

There's nothing like a self-righteous blog to make me question the entire existence of the blogosphere, whatever the hell that word means anyway.

I was just reading FreeDarko.com, specifically this post about how they're blog deserves more credibility than they get credit for from the credible media.

Now if I wanted credibility, I'd quit blogging forever and probably never talk to half of my "friends" ever again, but it's been pretty clear from Day 1 that I will have nothing to do with credibility. That's not what this is about. This is about attention, which is an entirely different monster.

The blog is not the place to go when you want to find credibility. If you want credibility, you turn to your local palm reader or Josef Stalin. But not when you want attention. You do not want attention from those people, so you turn to the blog community. And it makes sense. The blog community won't kill you or your family.

So, world, this is the deal: we bloggers won't hurt you or your loved ones, and you can stop taking us seriously. We're called bloggers for a reason, and that reason is that we're morons who made up a terrible sounding word to term ourselves. We don't want to make up a similarly damaging word for you, but we'll do it. So please, leave us to our diatribes against museums and our inadvertent praise of Stalin. Only then can we live in peace.