2002 / march / 25
local sights, 2
So why did I think of the Anne Frank house yesterday? Cause I passed it by, saw the huge
queue, and thought 'I wonder if annefrank.blogspot.com has been registered yet...'
Turns out it hasn't. After
this
then
this :
"If Anne Frank had a blog, she would have had her diary, but in the
appropriate places, she would have included hyperlinks to her favorite band and
movie star crush, the town she lived in and current news" -
yeah right. She was bloody hiding - could not leave a three room house for
two years - would she have dialled up and fired up her blog applet, to reveal
her IP address just so she could write?
It makes me fume. It even makes me use bold italic.
I'm even surer it would be a nice spoof now, but idle comments like this proof
that the Brand 'Anne Frank' has become an icon - and with that, lost
some of the real value. Of course, it's a long time ago, but the foundation
hasn't really helped either by marketing the diary and the house.
So a humorous take on Anne Frank's Blog, however meticulously played out
(and I sure couldn't do that), would always be misunderstood.
So I'll leave it to someone who can be mega-politically-incorrect. Like
Theo van Gogh - hey Theo,
drop me a line if you want to use the forementioned blogspot domain, ok ?
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