So you think you can Blog

I'm watching yet another reality-esque show, called, So you think you can dance.
It's a fun show and they work pretty hard to be real in their critiques as well as nice about it. The Simon Cowell type judge is actually just tough in my opinion, not freakishly inconsiderate.

And I began to wonder, what would it take to start a reality game called "so you think you can blog." I'm not sure it would really have good production values as, you'd have to find a way to make writing exciting. However, as a passive game, to watch and read might be interesting.

It would pre-suppose that there is such as thing as "good" blogging and that some blogs are better than others. In the same sense that we have awards for books being especially good in some category, this would be the Man Booker Award for blogs. I'm not sure what the application process would looks like, and I'm not sure that there would be a very interesting "worst of" set of blogs. Mostly I've found that blogs that are not great, are simply not great.

I can see it now, film of writer's block and all the crazy things writers do to have something interesting and new to report about their lives... It might work...

On other fronts, in my lowbrow, despicable quadrant, Hulu has a new rumor that they will start to require payment for at least some content in 2010. I'm completely bummed. I'd rather get it on netfilx... sorry hulu, but this is what my xbox elite is for.

Perhaps, I'm just greedy. I mean are we just so certain that everything should be free on-line? Maybe it's for the best, but I wish that they'd admitted that was the plan from the beginning. But that might have scared people off from trying the site, so I guess they did the right thing for the product.