I asked someone last night what they thought of blogs in general and was told that they were superficial and narcissistic.
Ouch!
Too bad given that I just started one LOL
But then I’m not either of those two things, so maybe they would have a different opinion if I had told them I had one too.
Course I didn’t tell them after that comment.
I’m quite new to the whole blogging thing not really having read many or really understood the need to share such information with the web community at large. Some of the few blogs I have read are celebrity or celebrity-wannabee blogs and on the whole are a major embarrassment. Laurell K Hamilton springs to mind. For those of you who don’t know her, she is a mediocre author of let’s call it vampire fiction meets Debbie Does Dallas. If they ever make a movie then I suggest a Linda Lovelace clone for the main character role.
Anyway, so there is this author, she *did* write fairly good ‘preternatural’ mysteries until she decided to turn her female lead into a porn star wannabee. She has a website and a blog and until recently a message board, but they took that down due to all the, let’s call it ‘heated debates’ between the ‘troo fans’ and the ‘disenchanted’ fans. The chief moderator, also had a lot to do with the final demise of the MB, banning people for rules that they alledgedly broke but said rules didn’t actually appear on the MB until AFTER the banning took place, that kinda thing.
So anyway, I digress. The point is she has a blog. I can’t read it anymore. It tells of how hard she finds everything, life, being a mother, how wonderful her sex life is, how she likes to be contrary and write the way she does to spite people, how she is a victim of internet rumour and speculation and that has nothing to do with the TMI she puts in her blog, newsletter etc, how if we don’t like the books we don’t need to read them, how we are all self-loathing masochists, how difficult it is to write a blog and so on and so forth. Like I said, I just can’t read it anymore. It reminds me too much of the title of this blog.
Recently I have read some blogs from the non-famous and I found them much more interesting. I guess you would appreciate them more if you’d ever kept a diary, as the concept is similar in a lot of ways, but then it also depends what people chose to make their blog about. Sometimes it is very diary-like, a daily/weekly journal of life events, and sometimes it is just random stuff or about a particular topic. There are a number of blogs about computers I noticed, and they can be very helpful.
I was reading one blog and the person was cataloging the process of building their new house complete with pictures at every stage. Probably this was mainly for their friends and family to keep track of but I still found it interesting even though I don’t know them.
Anyway, superficial or not, I think I’m gettin hooked so I’m off to find more LOL If I find any good ones I will list them in the blogroll on the right hand side.
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