Missive Two : Further Matters; and Some Clarifications.

The reaction in the days since the publication of our first missive has been explosive, to say the least. Though much of it has been well intended, some people have misconstrued our aims, and in that we have not been entirely without fault. We are brilliant, but we are not perfect. We aim to clear up a few things in this missive.

Firstly: To those who say that we are merely attempting to unseat the existing hierarchy in order to replace it with another populated by our own good selves; you are absolutely correct. How else can we propagate the memes of virtuous and pure weblogging. Of course, we intend to place ourselves at the top of the hierarchy. However, you will barely notice our leadership, after we cleanse the scene of the despicable infidels, our methods will become benign and benevolent; a nudge there, a tap here, a violently bloody pogrom of draconian measures every now and again just to keep everyone on their toes.

Secondly; To those who say we have not strictly followed the example of the Dogma 95 manifesto with regards to setting up guidelines for weblogging with the attendant Vow of Purity. We did have a go at this, but the Rules Subcommittee responsible for formulating those guidelines had a nine hour marathon session debating whether the use of Blogger should be proscribed, and in the end we had to summarily execute the whole bloody lot of them because the main point of contention was over whether Megnut was bourgeois, which would impact on whether Pyra was a good firm with good people, or just another of these dot-coms evicting all the freaks from San Francisco. Someone misheard the chairman and interjected that Meg was indeed "gorgeous" with her bizarre hair and all. In a tense environment, this contentious remark sparked a heated and at times physical argument over the politics of beauty and personal identity, whereapon we had to send the dogs in. So the set of guidelines was never completed. Tell you what, as some of you are such world-wise digerati geniuses, why don't you send your suggestions in. This will save us having to appoint another subcommittee, which would potentially send another five delegates to their doom and give us another bloody mess to clean up. Let it not be said that we are without mercy.

Thirdly; To people using the American high school as a metaphor for the social dynamic of the scene, grow up. With these institutions fostering a climate of anti-intellectualism in a society obsessed with guns, death, sexual repression and the resulting frustration, it is no accident that every now and again the oppressed will go berko and mow their oppressors down in a hail of gunfire. What that has to do with weblogging we have no idea.

Fourthly: To people describing us as hypocrites. We know.

Missive Three will be concerned with the Great Satan that is Jakob Nielsen.

-- BLOGMA2001 Committee, November 18 2000.