rants

While the maturation of bloggers throughout the years has been impressive, the Internet's backbone of popularity still has to be the impassioned, unfiltered, perhaps off-base thoughts that still populate today's cyberspace in the form of the rant.

Articles bloggers classify as "rants" are done so in surprisingly honest fashion. It's like they're saying up front, "okay, take the following text with as large a grain of salt as you want, but I have to get this off my chest." So if they're railing against Microsoft for problems they're experiencing with Silverlight, for example, it's clear they're not going to perform the task of newsgathering and reporting to make their point. Although, at Blogcritics, everything — including certain rants — is distinguished with a skosh of research. Either way, the writers are just going to sit at the computer and type for as long as it takes until the anger subsides.

It's actually quite convenient for everyone that they tag posts as "rants," because then when you want to bitch about Facebook's new terms of service, you and your other post-tagging colleagues will be in good company.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “rants”

 

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• What if Wonder Woman Were a Disney Princess?

  
  raincoaster — Authority: 449
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• And Into The Deep Pool I Go. The Rhythm Of A Weekend Off.

  
  Your Pharmacist May Hate You — Authority: 92
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• Burns My Bacon: Bones

  
  Endless Simmer - A Food Blog — Authority: 414
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• Lamb Chops with Shallot Sauce

  
  Jan's Sushi Bar — Authority: 107
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• Saving money in health care – ACP’s HVCCC

  
  DB's Medical Rants — Authority: 103
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• Could the U.S. Be A Next Generation Manufacturing Economy?

  
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• For Susan

  
  Motherhood Uncensored — Authority: 98
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• The dangers of flying with Indigo!

  
  Views from the Mathews — Authority: 85
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• What the World Was Watching: Monday Night Raw – October 14, 1996

  
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• Bridging The On-Line Real-World Gap

  
  lotusmedia 2.0 — Authority: 89
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• Repeated ad infinitum

  
  a sibilant intake of breath — Authority: 115
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• Star Trek vs Star Wars – Shatner vs Fisher

  
  jonathan carter — Authority: 89
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• House Niggles

  
  all five horizons — Authority: 101
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• The ArtFire Variant Tool – Why It Doesn’t Work

  
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• Paula Deen Has Diabetes. And In Other Shocking News, Liberace Was Gay

  
  The Bad Moms Club — Authority: 408
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• Why is fat more acceptable than anorexic?

  
  The Single Dude's Guide to Life & Travel — Authority: 94
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• Note to self: This is why they invented the Internet

  
  Motherhood Uncensored — Authority: 98
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