Well, not really, but I just can't pass up these Clash references.

I've been planning on writing a big post to address all the shit that has come up in London but after talking to many of the bloggers who are on board, and reading the comments of many who aren't I've decided it's not really worth it. The people who get it, really get it and I'm psyched that they are involved, the people who don't, probably won't, so it's not worth trying to explain.

I'm being told that the lemonade I'm making is the worst tasting milkshake ever. Well, it's not a milkshake. Some people are convinced it is, and won't shut up about how bad it is. They are all "Check out how crappy this milkshake is - there's not even MILK in it!" and I'm like "That's because it's L E M O N A D E, not a milkshake" and their reply is "You idiot, you can't make a milkshake without milk! Hahaha Silly Americans."

So what is there to say?

I don't expect every single person to "get it" right away, but basically we're not doing anything that ANYONE else has ever done, so comparisons against other sites, and what other people are doing are useless - as that isn't the plan. You never hear that some guys blogspot page has low "quality control" because it's just one guy. He's the end all be all of that page. Yet the second you get a few bloggers together some people assume there has to be editors, and direction, and whatever else you would most likely find at a magazine. But this is a BLOG. We are Bloggers, and that's that how this works.

Ask any of the authors on blogging.la how many times I've told them what to write about, or how to structure their posts, or anything like that. The answer is zero. We have the same one rule there as all the other sites - posts have to relate to the city. Each blogger takes that their own way and runs with it. It's not an issue of how one person says things, it's how the collective group sees the city. That's a perspective you couldn't get by just talking to one person, or even two or three.

I guess that's either something you get, or you don't.

I'm not going to even waste space addressing the other stuff because it's not even based in fact. I'm just laughing at the growing list of why my milkshake sucks. If anyone wants to actually *gasp* talk to me about my lemonade, I'm right here, otherwise I'm done discussing frozen dairy deserts.