Not Bitter At All

Someone at Amazon has been busy.

When I visited Amazon today I was greeted with a brand new feature they’re beta testing called a Plog. Not quite sure what to make of this bastardization of the word Blog, I clicked on their little link to the ‘About Plogs’ page where I discovered that “The Plog™ Service provides a personalized blog for each Amazon.com customer.”

Well, put me in the corner and call me baby.

Further reading revealed that “Your Amazon.com Plog is a diary of events that will enhance your shopping experience, helping you discover products that have just been released, track changes to your orders, and many other things.” Well, as you can imagine I was thrilled to hear this because lord knows that all the wish lists, wedding registries, recommended items, personalized stores, favorite shopping pages and Amazon Gold Boxes just aren’t enough personalization features for me to be able to find and purchase the next trivial, throwaway summer read I’ve been just dying to buy.

But that isn’t the worst part.

You see, the worst part is that in order to help their clueless customers understand what a Blog is, Amazon has supplied a helpful list of “some of the best and most popular blogs” out there on the internet today. There are fifteen Blogs on that list, and while I guess they’re not the worst choices Amazon could have made to help show their customers what a Blog is, guess who didn’t make the cut? Go on, guess. Seriously, I bet you won’t guess who was left out of their little reindeer games even though he is the greatest blogger to ever grace the internet with his funny stories and self-depreciating humor. Go on, try to figure it out. Betcha can’t guess who. You know what? I don’t think you’re smart enough. You’ll never figure it out. Who do you think it is? Huh? Huh? Come on, guess. Guess already!

Oooo! Lucky guess.