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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• It is time to make Oswalt a Cardinal

  
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• Why Is It…?

  
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