snakemeister
Shared on Thu, 12/14/2006 - 12:03I've been reading on the BBC News site about 'Le Web 3' - "a conference for bloggers and supporters of Internet media developments", and I got to thinking about Blogging.
You can read the BBC article if you want, although it is a bit lengthy (pot to kettle) and at times a little pretentious. Basically, I started to wonder - with so many blogs running around, what exactly are they all about? I keep reading about the 'blogosphere' and how it has fundamentally altered the way we think of news or reporting, by providing a new mechanism for communicating, but most of the blogs I've come across are much the same as my own - a few random postings, providing you with an edited story of the author's day-to-day activites.
Now, I understand there are some very good blogs out there that provide quality information, in a well written and literate style - blogs from Iraq, Afghanistan, the Third World, and the few blogs that escape the Great Firewall of China, for example. I applaud the authors of such blogs, as they are one of the reasons that blogs have become so conspicuous of late.
It makes me wonder if I should, or indeed if we all, should try to do something more than just keep a journal online? Should a blog be a place where you try and better yourself somehow? Should you try to educate people with your blog? Should you try to amuse them? SoupNazzi certainly manages the latter, at least for me. If you've read my last few posts, you'll know I am facing some serious financial difficulties. Things are likely to come to a head sometime just after the New Year, and I'll most likely post something about the outcome, whichever way it goes. The idea would be, I guess, to try and educate (hah!) people on what it's like to face, and possibly go through, Bankruptcy.
Apart from the blogs here, I don't really read any others. I did read one by an author using the name furyouhin, but I'm afraid she recently stopped. I don't know - maybe if I read more, I'd be better informed?
You can read the BBC article if you want, although it is a bit lengthy (pot to kettle) and at times a little pretentious. Basically, I started to wonder - with so many blogs running around, what exactly are they all about? I keep reading about the 'blogosphere' and how it has fundamentally altered the way we think of news or reporting, by providing a new mechanism for communicating, but most of the blogs I've come across are much the same as my own - a few random postings, providing you with an edited story of the author's day-to-day activites.
Now, I understand there are some very good blogs out there that provide quality information, in a well written and literate style - blogs from Iraq, Afghanistan, the Third World, and the few blogs that escape the Great Firewall of China, for example. I applaud the authors of such blogs, as they are one of the reasons that blogs have become so conspicuous of late.
It makes me wonder if I should, or indeed if we all, should try to do something more than just keep a journal online? Should a blog be a place where you try and better yourself somehow? Should you try to educate people with your blog? Should you try to amuse them? SoupNazzi certainly manages the latter, at least for me. If you've read my last few posts, you'll know I am facing some serious financial difficulties. Things are likely to come to a head sometime just after the New Year, and I'll most likely post something about the outcome, whichever way it goes. The idea would be, I guess, to try and educate (hah!) people on what it's like to face, and possibly go through, Bankruptcy.
Apart from the blogs here, I don't really read any others. I did read one by an author using the name furyouhin, but I'm afraid she recently stopped. I don't know - maybe if I read more, I'd be better informed?
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