Sponsor |  TDavid | Apr 30, 2004 9:48am | In my experience, I've discovered there are certain types of blog entries that follow a format and I started this thread to review the many different things that could be blogged / written about:
1) an idea or link to article with attribution, and some (of your) commentary.
2) a rant about a first person product, service or life experience
3) a How-To or informational article
4) review of a product and/or service
Feel free free to add other ideas to this thread. What do you like to write / blog about? |
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Sponsor | | CastorQuinn | Apr 30, 2004 10:04am | | Er ... might be a stupid question, but have you omitted the actual bog-standard journal blog post for any reason? In my experience most blogs out there seem to consist mostly of 'this is what happened today', random thoughts and ideas, events and inanity. |
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Sponsor | | CastorQuinn | Apr 30, 2004 10:04am | | Or does rthat fall under rant? |
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Sponsor | | TDavid | Apr 30, 2004 10:10am | No, you are right, I did leave that out, doh! Although it does sort of does fall under the "rant" thing for "life experience." Thank you for the correction.
5) dear diary style journal entry
Others? And what do you like to blog / write about? |
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Sponsor | | CastorQuinn | Apr 30, 2004 10:17am | I prefer not to talk about myself in this respect, but since you've asked I tend to blog mostly things that have just ocured to me, followed by things I've seen or done (not a 'this is my day', more a 'today I saw the new season of Astro Boy, and this is what my response is'), and then reviews of new programmes or net things I've just gotten into. Rarely I will also blog a 'this is what I did today', but that's very rare.
As for reading, I find reading 'this has just occured to me' more entertaining than anything else, I like to see the odd chunky 'article' - a review or 'this si what I've done' - and I also like the 'this is my day', as long as it's not the entirity of the blogger's catalogue.
I don't like reading political rants, or anything too personal - I'm not interested in their sex life, the dynamics of their friends, or a fight they had with someone. I don't like blogs that keep talking about other blogs - if you need to reference another blog, fair enough, but don't talk about them as your actual entry, that's just boring. I've never seen a how-to, but in a blog I would find that strange. |
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Sponsor | | artist | Apr 30, 2004 10:56am | CQ:
That's Interesting.
Please let me know any source where I can find blogs of type : "Just occured to me". |
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Sponsor | | Millerbull | Apr 30, 2004 11:01am | | For me it depends on my mood. I don't have a topic dedicated blog. It's mostly a hobby of mine. I never get too personal, but do tend to use it for general rants, current events, my political opinions, etc. I agree with CQ, I despise blogs that keep talking about other blogs (especially when they refer to the author's rather than the blog-name). Unless you are a hardcore fan, it's just too much to follow. I try to update regulary, but sometimes I just can't get it done. When I am feeling lazy I tend to do my SU thing -- posting links w/my brief comments. |
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Sponsor | | TDavid | Apr 30, 2004 11:26am | Does anybody here integrate their stumbles into their blog? I have a category called "linkdump" on one of my blogs and I've been thinking about integrating with the Stumbleupon RSS feed, this way as I stumble, this category would automatically be updated. Kill two birds with one stone, type thing.
For those wondering where your own Stumbleupon RSS feed is at, it's located on your stumble page (click the audience meter in the stumbleupon toolbar) and then scroll down to the bottom where the orange RSS button is located. You can choose between RSS with your stumbles and an RSS feed of your stumbles with comments. |
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Sponsor | | Millerbull | Apr 30, 2004 11:46am | | TD -- i would love to do this, but I am a bit of a novice when it comes to this stuff. What is RSS, and if integrated into my blog what will it produce? |
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Sponsor | | CastorQuinn | Apr 30, 2004 12:01pm | TD, I'm not sure what you're talking about would still be a blog, to be perfectly honest. If you're feeding info from a site directly into your site, surely that's not a blog, that's just you mirroring info from another site on yours. It would stuill be a personal page, but that's not a blog. The whole point of a blog is that it's supposed to be someone posting their thoughts, feelings, a journal of sorts online for people to read. If it becomes nothing but reviews, it would become a review site, not a blog; if it's just 'how to's' then it's a help site, not a blog; if it's just links it's a links site, not a blog, and if its posting your stumbles or your listening habits it's a personal page, not a blog.
Thgis is something I don't like: the web junkie's blog. They call it a blog, but it's not. Especially when it's automated - I mean come on, in what freaky universe can a blog be automated by just feeding it, RSS-style?
When I talk about blogs, I mean someone who's actually sitting down and typing up their thoughts or feelings, a ka a good old fashioned journal, and then posting it to the web.
Artist, the only blogs I can currently point to that do this 'just occured to me' are blogs of my friends, and I'd rather not post them here; I know it sounds weird, but I like to ask them first. I'll post a link when I can. But if you're rpessed, you can look at mine, ghosted.wyerd.com/intangible [ghosted.wyerd.com/intangible] which has some elements of that in it, though the site itself is pretty dodgy so please, no comments on how to improve it, I already know, I just don't have time at the moment. |
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