do not throw megaphones or metaphors out your window

i sure wish there was a way to easily filter out weblogs from google search results, like the inverse of their blog search, on a per-query basis. all too often now i search for something and the first page of results are just useless pages from people whose opinions don't matter and have nothing useful to say about the subject. or worse, they're just posts that link to other idiots' weblogs who also have nothing useful to say.

for the five years i've been making notes to myself on this thing that is not a weblog, my robots.txt has explicitly forbid search engines from spidering it so as not to spam them with my ramblings. but i guess now that nobody has a "website" anymore and can only maintain a "blog", asking everyone else to do the same would remove a lot of semi-useful content from search engines.