Is a bit of a misleading title for this entry because I already blog on a different site, but about completely different topics, namely nothing journalistic.
Being a blogger is a strange phenomenon: you write your thoughts in an isolated vacumn, interacting only with a computer, but then random people from the world over can read your thoughts and respond. No wonder people are addicted to blogging, it's an adrenaline rush. Someone should do a brain-scanning study on bloggers before they blog, while they're blogging, and after they post an entry to see how their brain waves change.
The flip side of blogging is its enormous tendency to produce absolutely meaningless crap like entries about someone's breakfast or their most recent romantic foible. Too often, people blog about themselves only, forgetting that no one else is as invested in them as they are, nor does anyone else care about the little tidbits that make up a person's personality. Am I too cynical? Perhaps.
I'm excited to have a focused blog that requires me to respond to one topic, set of related topics. It'll be better than the other blog I write, which is mostly creative writing and bad poetry.
Here are links to good advice on blogging:
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=75383
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=75665
2 comments:
I'm interested in this, how you say, "isolated vacuum." I remember when you asked me how to spell vacuum, it was while we both had on head-phones, sitting right next to one another, and screaming at each other. But an "isolated" vacuum... Would that be the opposite of, say, an overpopulated one? If there's a vacuum, is there usually stuff around it? or is an isolated vacuum a common thing? Seriously.
you'r a contributor to my blog, now. Cool. I hope Scott doesn't get mad.
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