Post Blogospheric Fiction

Posted on January 17, 2006

Sfsite.com has an entertaining science fiction story called Plumage from Pegasus written by Paul Di Filippo. The story takes place in a post-blogging world where ex-bloggers, like Cory Doctorow, roam the streets trying to get flesh-and-blood "hits" for their sites and show photographs of cool gadgets and cool stuff to people passing by.

I HAD TO run a few errands downtown, but I hesitated to go.
What if I ran into bloggers?
Ever since the total, irretrievable collapse of the Internet in a chaos of viruses, worms, spam, terrorism and busts by the FBI anti-porn squad, that archaic species of human had become a bigger street menace than mimes, Jehovah's Witnesses, or panhandlers ever were.

It is a good read and it is a short-short so it doesn't take long to read. Hopefully, this is not what bloggers will ultimately become.