Opinion - Shut up until you have something to say. David Tebbutt has had it up to here with blogs - especially the reams of irrelevant and plain wrong rubbish that the so-called A-list post between occasional gems.

I've spent a year deeply immersed in the public blog world and, frankly, I'm sick of it.

So-called A-list bloggers spout whatever's on their minds, just because they're A-list bloggers and it's what they do. They can't stop because their identity is totally bound up in the blog, never mind all the millions of hours of other people's time they gobble up daily. For every gem they post, there is a lot of space-filling.

Challenge these bloggers on a factual error and they will airily suggest that it doesn't matter, the blogosphere is self-correcting. Yeah, right. Having picked up and believed, some astonishing claim, who on earth is going to revisit the post to see if any corrections have been added. No-one, that's who.

Anyone who participates in this world to any degree quickly realises that it is impossible to keep up with all the bloggers who might, just occasionally, post something interesting and relevant.

A Technorati, or similar, RSS watchlist will keep an eye out for key terms, but there's no real indication of quality. You can check up on inbound links, which will give a clue, but these are likely to be tiny in a specialist area. And, yes, you could study the relative numbers but this would be a time-consuming business for very little return.

Not only this, but if you're like me and are taking over a hundred RSS feeds, and you stop looking for a day or two, you'll find that you just can't face the mountainous task of catching up. Either you mark them all read, refine your lists and start again, or you end up feeling totally inadequate and have a nervous breakdown.

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