Why do people point out blog entries that (try to) detail how to create a successful blog like this entry -- How to Save the World? I am so damned sick of these things (not that that stops me from reading them... I am indiscriminate in my consumption but will make remarks after the fact regardless).
Blogging to me is masturbation (in a figurative sense). I blog about things I would normally send an email out about to my group of fellow computer/car friends. With a blog, I can post it there, they can read it, like-minded people can read it, etc. I really don't feel the need to have a "consistent writing style," "memorable theme," or "infectious quality." That may be the case with my entries, or it may not be the case, but I do not consider this a medium that requires dramatic self-fulfilling improvement.
And, no, I am not saying there is anything wrong with utilizing a blog to improve one's communication or whatever. I am just making a counterpoint.
I blog for masturbation. I blog what I normally would have emailed to friends. I, even, blog items such that I may not have emailed because blogging is such a useful medium more conducive to certain topics and discussion(s).
I like blogging; I just don't look at the way that person does. Not that I am making a value judgement one way or another. I am all for people creating well thought out blog entries, but no one else has ever written an essay on "How to Run a Crappy Blog" or "I Don't Give a Rat's Ass; I Just Pound on the Keyboard."
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Right, well, that explains the digital hand lotion.
That's hysterical. I also hate the word "blogosphere." I like to know who coined that idiotic word. Blog is also an idiotic word. Face it people, you are writing an online journal. Nothing more or less. Content is another stupid term. When I hear the word "content" I think of something in a box. Bloggers think the word is some stamp of approval when someone tells them they have "content."
Blogging is wreaking havoc on the English language.