Bugger, I got the blog bug!
I am sick, and terribly-terribly infectious: I give people the 'blog bug'.
That, from Emma and Kate, two new converts to blogism. Emma blogs at Little Miss Sunshine about "anything really" and Kate would like to have "something of substance" at Kate’s Place. Do check them out.
I did some nosing around and came up with a few relatively new -- and not so new -- blogs around us. There’s Timmo’s How Soon Is Now, Lucy Meakin’s Blogging Along, Katie's The Multitasker, and James Rivington’s The home of corkball.
All of them, so far as I can see, are having a good time online, and, as Kate says, it doesn’t matter if anyone’s reading it or not, because it has a "strange sense of worthwhileness about it".
Nice way of putting it. I like that. Makes us think what we find ‘worthwhile’ about blogging. Is it because it gives us a voice, an opportunity to sound off? On anything we darned well please? Or is it because, as Emma puts it half-jokingly, it is a "good distraction"? Or..?
My reasons might not be yours. But, if you are blogger, you do have a good reason for blogging, and I am curious to know yours. So drop me a line below, could you?
What do you find satisfying about this little exercise?
How does it help you?
And if you are non-blogger, why do you not blog?
Now ‘scuse me folks, I got to go spread this bug some more...
That, from Emma and Kate, two new converts to blogism. Emma blogs at Little Miss Sunshine about "anything really" and Kate would like to have "something of substance" at Kate’s Place. Do check them out.
I did some nosing around and came up with a few relatively new -- and not so new -- blogs around us. There’s Timmo’s How Soon Is Now, Lucy Meakin’s Blogging Along, Katie's The Multitasker, and James Rivington’s The home of corkball.
All of them, so far as I can see, are having a good time online, and, as Kate says, it doesn’t matter if anyone’s reading it or not, because it has a "strange sense of worthwhileness about it".
Nice way of putting it. I like that. Makes us think what we find ‘worthwhile’ about blogging. Is it because it gives us a voice, an opportunity to sound off? On anything we darned well please? Or is it because, as Emma puts it half-jokingly, it is a "good distraction"? Or..?
My reasons might not be yours. But, if you are blogger, you do have a good reason for blogging, and I am curious to know yours. So drop me a line below, could you?
What do you find satisfying about this little exercise?
How does it help you?
And if you are non-blogger, why do you not blog?
Now ‘scuse me folks, I got to go spread this bug some more...
posted by Chindu at 5:46 PM
10 Comments:
hmm. interesting question.
the reason i started blogging was quite functional. I already have a website and wanted to have a 'latest news' or 'opinions' section but doing that on PageBuilder is like trying to water Eden with a water pistol.
i also like to write and share reviews on films, books and cds as well as summaries of seminars and research stuff.
but it's changed. Since late 2005 it's become much more personal - more of a diary, getting all the dirty laundry out in the public.
and during the last few days it's changed yet again; it appears my other half was also hiding behind a blog...
Hi - who reads blogs? Well mainly the people who write them I expect! But as a convert I think they can be a powerful source of communication - at the ambitious end of the scale they can, in the words of Huffington Post founder, Arianna Huffington, be an'invaluable tool for holding the mainstream media's feet to the fire'.
Roman: The reasons have changed, I take it, but you still find it gratifying? Curiosity: Do you find it takes up a lot of your time? And is it addictive, do you think?
Leonie: Welcome aboard. Checked you out, and left you a comment. Good going, and hope you don't get over this bug. Incidentally, did you manage to give it to anyone? Also, let us hear about how you find the exercise. Any point in doing it, do you think?
Liisa: Agree, completely. Traditional journos need to watch their step. Best fact-checkers I have ever seen, the bloggers. Actually, has found that quite interesting, even in the era without the blogs. Offline, I could afford to misspell a name, and I could get away it. But online? Oh no, I would have 50 emails in the first 10 minutes of putting up a story!
definitely gratifying, totally addicting. i can't imagine NOT blogging.
it doesn't have to take a lot of time to write stuff (although it can do), reading my blogroll takes much more time
the only trouble is I feel with so much hype around blogs and the theory that they are taking over from traditional news meidums, I have to write something insightful, or thought provoking, or at least interesting. Otherwise, there's so much crap that if it became all personal and full of quick short notes about "omg hav i had da wrst day eva 2day", the way livejournal has gone, then it goes a bit shit really, like faceparty, myspace and so on.
www.theworldisntlistening.blogspot.com
Kate: Good to see you are enjoying the exercise. 'Blogchat' has an appeal of its own, yes. Personally, I find it connects me a lot with people who I would never be in touch with otherwise.
Timmo: I think that's something that seems to put off many. But need it be so?
Lucy: Thank you for dropping by. Sometimes, I find, blogs take on a life of their own, once they get going. How much you invest into it, that depends on how much time you have on your hand. I think you can do a pretty decent blog without letting it take over your life quite easily! Ego trip, can see your point. But a counter to that: is that too wrong?
Emma, read the unit guide. Most of the info you want is in there. You are free to change anything, everything. Or you can be happy with tidying it up. Up to you. I will mark on the basis of your final product -- how good the site you have produced is. Photoshop it? If it needs to be Photoshoped, yes.
http://theworldisntlistening.blogspot.com/2005/05/blogging-arrogant-probably-gahahaha.html
I wrote this 11 months ago ish, Chindu, and how right I was! :p
At least, at pre-empting my answer here that blogging should be kept for 'worthwhile comment'.
Timmo: If I write drivel, nobody will read me. If I write something people can connect, then people might read me... Yes, it helps if your blog is focussed and is of general interest. But having said that, if it gives you pleasure to tell people that you are wearing purple socks today, why not do it? The way I look at it, a blog is your own. For your very own purpose. Complete freedom!
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