Saturday, January 14, 2006

today's topic is : the first post







Having a blog is old hat. Worse than that, it's
ancient hat. I read some other blogs and they were generally in four categories.
  1. Quite fun but with a limited audience. These are blogs that stick to one topic almost obessively. There's something reassuring about other peoples' obsessions.
  2. Autobiographical. These are almost always boring.
  3. Occasionally interesting, but generally very specific. Lots of academic blogs are like this. People having endless competitive discussions about obscure topics with the three people in the world who know enough about said topics to competitively discuss them with.
  4. Blogs that just copy off other blogs.
Time is, of course, a factor. When do some people find the time to write all this stuff? It seems that even people with proper jobs spend almost all their time at work not actually working at all, but writing blogs and such other activities. I imagine that lots of people give up on their bloggin because they have no time.

I think the virgin blogger's next problem is believing that what you have to say is remotely interesting to anyone else. It's a confidence question, I guess. I think this is also a reason why people give up blogging. Like the songwriter who has one great album in them, they simply run out of interesting things to say.

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