5 things I learned today

January 22, 2012 9:02 PM

5 things I learned today
posted by flex (16 comments total)

This is more like 5 things I looked at today.
posted by arcticseal at 9:08 PM on January 22, 2012 [3 favorites]

These are not "learnings".
posted by tumid dahlia at 9:10 PM on January 22, 2012 [4 favorites]

Come back to the 5ive and dime, Merlin Mann, Merlin Mann.
posted by gwint at 9:12 PM on January 22, 2012 [1 favorite]

This is a great concept for a blog that I'd gladly write myself but not actually ever read.
posted by Apocryphon at 9:18 PM on January 22, 2012 [5 favorites]

Not Detectvie Larson, He's the detective!
posted by sendai sleep master at 9:19 PM on January 22, 2012

As if the world needs more blogs dedicated to a "stream of stuff".
posted by Oh OK HA HA at 9:32 PM on January 22, 2012

I learned that DESTROYED IN SECONDS will stop me every time. Sorry, what were we talking about?
posted by philip-random at 9:40 PM on January 22, 2012 [3 favorites]

Holy hell, Metafilter is full of grumpy bitches.

Thanks for the link, flex.
posted by You Should See the Other Guy at 9:45 PM on January 22, 2012

As if the world needs more blogs dedicated to a "stream of stuff".

I think, in a weird way, it does. Essentially, it feels like letting someone else do your surfing for you, then filing you a report to take a look at when you find the time. The challenge is finding someone who shares your taste in stuff.
posted by philip-random at 9:47 PM on January 22, 2012 [2 favorites]

--As if the world needs more blogs dedicated to a "stream of stuff".---

Yes, because lord knows that the large aggregator sites are all that we need these days to surface the good stuff; and small sites and individuals sharing their streams only interfere with the magnificence of the groupthinkery.
posted by peacay at 9:51 PM on January 22, 2012

Essentially, it feels like letting someone else do your surfing for you, then filing you a report to take a look at when you find the time.

Isn't this, to some extent, kind of the point of MetaFilter?

Put another way:

MetaFilter: Essentially, it feels like letting someone else do your surfing for you, then filing you a report to take a look at when you find the time.
posted by asnider at 9:54 PM on January 22, 2012 [3 favorites]

This is weird.

1. There's only five items on your lists - you really can't use a template that allows all five items to be read without going into individual post pages?

2. This is not 'things I learned today,' this is 'cool things I looked at/watched on the Internet today,' which is not bad of itself, but is a really weird bait-and-switch framing that simultaneously turns off people attracted by the title and doesn't attract people who would like the content.
posted by Hargrimm at 9:55 PM on January 22, 2012 [4 favorites]

Today I learned that Newt Gingrich paid a guy $8500 to have his taxes prepared.
posted by mrhappy at 9:58 PM on January 22, 2012 [2 favorites]

OMG: Destroyed in Seconds = bizarrely cathartic.
posted by mochapickle at 10:14 PM on January 22, 2012

Title sucks, destroyed in seconds worth the disappointment.
posted by Samuel Farrow at 10:18 PM on January 22, 2012 [2 favorites]

I don't think I could even find the willpower to craft blog posts about 1 random thing I looked at every day, let alone 5 things. I guess this person should be commended on putting the extra effort on making his/her own super-snowflake Twitter feed?
posted by Panjandrum at 10:52 PM on January 22, 2012