A Brief History Not A Doge: A blog about the content of the blog itself.
A Brief History Not A Doge is an art project by Ben Vickers and Georgina Rowlands. It is a blog about blogs, online content and web culture. It exists as a blog, written in the past tense, which discusses the current state of online publishing. The manifesto for this blog was written in June 2014 for the publication “The Art of Internet” published by Adbusters Magazine.
It was launched on Medium on July 4th 2014 as part of an event called “The Internet Takeover” in which a group of artists and writers took over various publications on Medium to discuss art and the internet. Over the course of eighteen months or so it has published around 160 articles, slowly evolving its format and structure, from satirical rants against online culture to more nuanced critiques that are less aggressive but no less critical.
Today, I was going through old files on my computer and I found this blog. Browsing through the entries, I noticed something that made me think: This blog is not what it seems to be.
I thought back to the day I created it. It was July 29, 2012. I had been lurking in 4chan’s /v/ board for years at that point, and one day an idea struck me: Why not make a blog about video games? So I did.
I considered many names for this blog. But one in particular stood out: “A Brief History Of Video Games”. It seemed so perfect at the time – and yet, when I look back now, it’s obvious that this name is a lie. For the most part, this blog does not talk about video games. Instead, it talks about itself.
So today, I have decided to change the name of this blog to reflect its actual content. I will be calling it “ABriefHistoryNotADoge”, which is both catchy and accurate. In fact, it might be too accurate – but that can’t be helped now.
Thank you all for reading this short announcement post.
It’s about a blog that is mostly about the content of the blog, in this case a picture of a dog. The owner of the blog has written a brief history of the blog, from its inception in 2008 to its current day state. I’m not sure when it was last updated, but it looks like it hasn’t been for awhile. It also links to some other sites with similar content.
The blog is also pretty good at making fun of itself, which is something I like in my blogs. It’s not as funny as some other blogs out there, but it’s still good enough to make you laugh. I also like that they have a separate category just for “funny” posts. This means that if you’re looking for something to make you laugh, you can just go to their website and see what they’ve got.
They also have an RSS feed so you can keep up with new posts as they come out.
It was three years ago this week that the world first met Doge, a Shiba Inu who became the unlikely face of 2013’s meme scene. The original image, which features the dog gazing up at the viewer with raised eyebrows and a slight, confused frown on its face, was posted to Reddit by user ShibaDoggo, who says he found it on Tumblr.
As soon as it hit Reddit, Doge exploded. Within weeks there were dozens of photoshopped images of the doge face plastered over everything from photos of babies in hot dog costumes to paintings of alien landscapes. It wasn’t just limited to photos either; one user created an ASCII art version made entirely out of text. There are still new Doge memes created every year.
But why did Doge become such a big deal? Why did this specific picture of an adorable pup turn into what Know Your Meme calls “one of the Internet’s most recognizable meme faces” in such a short period of time? And why has it remained so popular for so long?
A lot of people credit Doge’s success to how relatable it is. It’s not hard to imagine that look on your own dog’s face when you get home from work or have been gone all day
It is creepy, even repulsive and sinister, that a hedgehog could be so cute. It is like a cross between a cat and a pig. It is a mouthful of cuteness.
It is one of the most popular memes in the whole world, alongside other memes such as “doge” and “dank” and others.
The origin of this meme is not known, but it was most likely created by a user named doge on 4chan.
This meme has been used extensively to make fun of everything from politics to religion to music to movies.
It has been used in many different ways, including:
– To make jokes about people’s political beliefs or personal appearance.
– To make fun of celebrities and politicians.
– As an example of what people can do with their spare time.
– To express anger at something or someone else.
In the early days of blogging, to blog was to blog about blogging. Bloggers would write blog entries about who was linking to their blogs, what other bloggers had written about them, who had left comments on their blogs, and so on.
The most famous blog in those days was probably Jason Kottke’s Kottke.org, which still exists and is still captivating. But a quick glance through the archives shows how much of Kottke’s early content was about blogging itself: “I’ve been blogging for three weeks now”; “It’s been a week since I switched from Moveable Type to Movable Type”; “Blog reader David Smith asks: ‘What kind of statistics do you have for your site? How many hits a day? How many people subscribed to your RSS?'”; and so on.
Kottke wasn’t just talking about himself though; he was also writing about other bloggers and their blogs: “There were two links that stood out for me this week”: “Dave Winer has put up an XML-RPC server at weblogs.userland.com”; “Megnut has made some changes to her site.” And he posted original content, such as the post that started as an apparent news story but then took
I’ve been mulling over the format of this blog for a while. I consider myself primarily a programmer, and my favorite blogs to read are informative, personal and/or theoretical. My favorite blogs are those that have a regular cadence of posts (even if it is infrequent), and have posts that are generally interesting to me – even if I may not always agree with them. One problem is that my interests tend to wander a lot and I don’t necessarily want to write about one thing for too long.
I also don’t have any particular desire to write about programming unless it’s something more theoretical or conceptual, so I’m very unlikely to post about specific projects I may be working on. That doesn’t mean technical topics won’t appear on this blog, but I didn’t want the title of the blog to pigeonhole me either.
So the tone of this blog is going to be pretty similar to my twitter account – whatever happens to be on my mind at the time.