No, no, no.  Not the Blaaahs – yes, those should be banished too, but the “blands.” What are blands? Oh, I think I just made that up as a noun – you know, when something is bland? Well the blands are just a lot of bland.


While blog hopping earlier this week I ended up at Mars Dorian’s where he writes a thought provoking blog and shoots an equally wicked vidlog … all in one.


Just as someone tells you that the blogosphere is saturated and that it’s going to be a long slog to just get traffic and get noticed and have visitors leave comments and never mind about the money because those that are making it aren’t going to tell you how and how the hell do you think you’ll be different from the millions and millions of other blogs out there ….???


Along comes  like Mars.


I chanced on his post on setting yourself apart. .  It was a good intro and the video was an excellent watch.  Hop on over there and watch it, it’s worth it, then, if you like please come back here.  Mars talks about being yourself when you write and how if you are just part of the noise, no one will hear you.  In other words, put some spice and don’t be bland.


I can tell you there is nothing bland about Mars.


That’s when I got the idea of banishing the blands.  Like there ought to be a place in cyberspace where anything bland on the internet is banished to, sort of like living in exile in the sphere of Blandistan – sorry Dave,  borrowing from your Blogistan.  Those in exile will need to work on their unique and true self and present themselves in that way and not try to be like someone else.


Of course bland is very subjective.  It’s like the color beige, no one – at least no one I know – gushes and coos about how they “… just love beige, I mean don’t you?”  Beige on the other hand can exude elegance and class if styled “just so” whether it is a coat or a couch, and it is not just in the eye of the beholder, when something is done right, you just know it.


So who is going to be the judge of bland and how is that going to be handled? Who else?  Surely Google would be the obvious arbiter of whether a piece of work is bland or not.  The spyder bots can be trained to recognize bland when they crawl and quickly, just like that, a bland  piece is banished to Blandistan.


Hmmmm….. there are holes in this thought, but it’s got merit, it can be worked out,. Stay with me.  What do you think?

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