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Our own blogs
Submitted by a bird on 15 December 2006 - 11:22am.
So I've been contemplating setting up my own blog. It's exceedingly un-me to do so - or at least, me prior to this semester. But I've enjoyed getting my word vomit out on something that other people might actually read. It's somehow satisfying in a way that a private journal would not be.
Problem is, I don't know what I'd blog about. The best blogs seem to have themes - parenting blogs, political blogs, celebrity blogs, technology blogs.
What could I write about, besides "Boring college blog"?
Do any of you have your own blogs, outside of this one? What do you write about?
I should have a baby. Baby
I should have a baby. Baby blogs are by far my favorite.
Or is that too extreme?
Okay - compromise. I'll do a baby blog when I do have a baby. I won't have a baby for the sake of a blog. As tempting as that sounds. I like babies. I like baby blogs.
I'm weird.
i have my own blog outside
i have my own blog outside of class that i've kept for over three years, and i just write generally anything related to my life. it's the ultimate exercise in egotism. i write about how i feel, my classes, interesting things i read about in the news, social and political commentary, anything pertinent, relevant, interesting to me.
i think if you want your blog to truly function like a blog and not merely as an online version of a private journal, then you need to somehow create your own network of bloggers/friends. the reason i find blogging worthwhile is because the blogring that i'm in includes all my real-life friends, so that it's basically exchange of comments between all of us, so that it's almost like an online extension of my real-life social relations. i like this kind of blogging much better than the random blogging of big celebrity A-list bloggers who attract comments from random people all over. personally, i feel the intimate, small network of friends blogring is the most emotionally satisfying, especially since your readers really know you as a person in real life. so yeah, one of the steps involved is to try to convince all your friends to get a blog and to start writing in them, if they haven't already.