Recently Microsoft has discovered the blogging phenomena. It's always interesting to see how Microsoft steps on internet hype bandwagons. Fashionably late too. However they often manage to become a big player in whatever they get their hands on in a quick and quite impressive way.

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I've always considered the internet a fun place. Even though just about everyone who can still breath from every dark corner of our Western society has an email address and an internet account there always seems to be room for new and exciting things. But for some reason they never last long. It's always a matter of time before the commercial giants discover a phenomena and effectively ruin the whole experience. Creating webpages was exciting when the WWW was invented and the first browsers were born. Instant messaging was new and exciting when two Israelian guys invented ICQ. Blogging was new and interesting when it started to take off a couple of years ago.

Nowadays many people are making webpages. It's become too easy. Blogging is something every highschool teenager can do. And now that MSN has entered this terrain as well it will even get worse.

I sometimes really wonder whether it's such a good thing that everything is being made so easy. Back in the early days one needed quite some skills to create a website. People who managed to pull it off were usually interesting enough to offer content one actually wanted to read. Due to this very nature of the WWW a search engine actually easily found the info you were looking for at any given time. Those days are long gone. We're filling up the internet with rubbish no one wants to read but yet it's there taking up space, using bandwidth, taking resources and worse: our valuable time. It's almost a struggle sometimes, wading through piles of completely non-interesting material before we encounter something actually worth reading. Soon we'll be confronted with thousands and thousands of MSN blogs, all with the same look and all without anything interesting to be found.

Now before you start banging in your flames in my comment form: By no means I think people shouldn't have the right to own a website, or a blog. It's just become too easy to fill the net with rubbish. Where it will end? No one knows. Let's just hope they'll invent something new to enjoy for a couple of years soon. Only a couple of years of course, before the whole history repeats itself once again...