Is this a real blog?

While getting my daily news dosage on aol.com I found an article about a blog. "It's destiny!"I thought. Obviously the news gods wanted me to find inspiration for my next blog post here. So I go to this blog that has over five million views expecting a creative masterpiece. What do I get instead? It seems like almost a blog version of twitter . There are very few actual articles concerning anything at all. Most of the blog posts have pictures of her dog with a funny caption following it. Here's an example of one of her posts:




"Precious Cargo
I decided that he had to come with me this week, but before he would agree to the 60-minute flight to Denver he made me promise that they have cheese in Colorado. I told him I hear they have belly rubs, too!"

Granted, the picture is adorable, but is this what five million people now think blogging is? Where is the substance?

Just as a little background information this is from dooce.com, a blog famously run by the woman who was fired for having a blog (and reading her blog now I can't really blame them for canning her!)