Why We’re Awesome

I’m not satisfied with the internet today. All these wonderful things it supposedly does don’t really do anything for me. Nobody I know uses twitter, reading the news online is more of a chore than a treat, so much of the stuff on any entertainment site is boring or stupid, and don’t even get me started about people’s dull, self-indulgent blogs. If it weren’t for online shopping and porn, I don’t think I’d be getting anything out of the internet at all.

The internet just has too damn much stuff on it. Everyone seems to think that just because they CAN tell you everything now, they should. If you go to any big site on the internet, like Youtube, Twitter, Digg, Facebook, or any news site, you immediately realize that they desperately need an editor, someone to pan out the few gold nuggets from the heaping piles of muck.

Some of these sites try to crowdsource an editor. They put up a box that says “most popular” and think the wisdom of crowds will pick out the best stuff. Does that really seem like what would happen? Have you ever seen the lowest common denominator shit crowds like? Maybe crowds are great at guessing how many jelly beans are in a jar, but they clearly have no idea which articles I’m gonna like. People don’t all like the same things, but everyone agrees that the most popular stuff is never the best stuff.

You see, information and entertainment are two different things. I want the second one, but the internet only works for the first. Information just needs people and a medium, but entertainment’s more fragile makeup requires a delicate balance of conditions or it doesn’t work. It’s like the invention of the internet opened an exterior door on Space Station Earth, and information is expanding exponentially with all this wonderful new space open to it while entertainment suffocates. For entertainment, we still need people with good taste, people who can filter our content and decide what is and is not seen. Some people think the internet should be a huge flea market where anyone can just throw out whatever they want for you to browse through. But the internet is not something that you can just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. There’s some stuff that’s just plain not entertaining, and I absolutely want someone to keep that shit from clogging up my tubes.

That’s where Allthyngs comes in. Allthyngs is a joint blog by 12 funny, likable, interesting, smart people, each with different tastes and interests. We go around the web and the world finding awesome things so that we can give you everything you want to see and only what you want to see in one consolidated place. No more watching 10 boring videos of ugly babies by parents who think their kid is adorable hoping to find one that actually is, no more trudging through tweets about the minutia of people’s lives starving for one cool link, and no more slogging through pages and pages of news just to feel like you’re up to date.

The internet so far has not been good enough, and we want to change that. You want to know what’s going on in the world, but everyone trying to tell you is too obnoxious. You want to find fun stuff when you’re bored, but nobody will just give it to you without making you jump through hoops. You want to hear what people think about things, but everyone with an opinion to share also has an agenda, an oversized ego, or a freakish obsession with something nobody could possibly care that much about. We understand this, and we’re here to help. Come to Allthyngs when you want to read the news without getting bored or scared. Come to Allthyngs when you have nothing to do, or when you have stuff to do but you’d rather procrastinate. Come to Allthyngs when you want to know what other people thought about that big thing that just happened in the world. Allthyngs.com is all the good stuff, only the good stuff, done in a way you’ll actually enjoy. Welcome to the internet- the way it should’ve been all along.

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