The Skimmable (Forgettable?) Boing Boing

I don’t know when it happened, but I realized recently that I don’t really read Boing Boing anymore. It’s still there in my feedlist, and certainly they still are posting quite frequently. But somewhere in there I got tired of seeing the same four or five ideas posted in innumerable permutations. It’s so homogeneous, it’s turned bland to my taste buds. I just don’t seem to have the time or the inclination to wade through the latest 40 posts of whatever, and that’s a shame.

For a long time, I enjoyed the Boing Boing perspective on things and read it closely. These days it merits a skim or even sometimes a “mark all as read” click. And believe me, I want Boing Boing to be good. I’ve suggested a variety of interesting links with snappy write-ups to them, but I suppose they weren’t as interesting as multiple posts on locked elk antlers.

I’ve become partial to MetaFilter, among others, for shear quantity of interesting links. There’s some noise, but there’s lots of interesting stuff that I see turn up there and nowhere else. It’s been a long time it seems since I linked to anything on Boing Boing. But I guess that’s all more a reflection of me — I’ve changed and grown and moved on. Boing Boing is still the place to go for the thing they do, but increasingly I find that the thing they do is not what I want.