Lol blogging August 5, 2008 4:56 pm
So I have this meebo account from when I was still in college. The campus blocked all p2p ports so I needed an alternative chat app. (it wasn’t till later that I began using adium for this purpose)
Meebo gives it’s users the ability to embed a chat room in their blog/myspace. Being the sucker I am for silly blog tools, I made a “chat room” page on augiemania. No one has ever used it besides me for screwing around.
This got me thinking about other worthless gadgets people put on their blog. Now your miles may vary, but I don’t get much traffic on this site at all, so the idea of people using these things is sort of absurd.
I go to blogs to read, not play with your silly flickr slideshow. Just put the whole gallery on a page, I would rather see them all than like 5 of them. Also your photos suck. (mine aren’t any better)
I use Youtube a lot, so I like the idea of a multiple video player. In fact I use one on my videos page to avoid unnecessary clicks in case someone wants to see a bunch of my vids in a row.
I also used to belong to a few of those “read my blog I’ll read yours” sites, but those are stupid. BlogExplosion sucks stop being an attention whore.
Okay, now that I’ve come to my point, we can get to the good stuff.
I find that a lot of bloggers are pretty boring. I like news blogs, and “cool stuff” blogs, and some of my friends personal blogs, but 99% of blogs are pointless musings that are mostly masturbatory. (LOL irony)
I’ve been thinking about augiemania a lot lately and have decided to post more frequently. But the problem is this:
Who cares?
If I stumbled upon this blog (I prefer the term “site”) I would be bored to tears. Now I need to come up with stuff worth reading.
I have an rss feed that pulls in my facebook posted items which sits in the first side bar under “peep it” that I am thinking about turning into actual posts, but facebook is so retarded that their feed doesn’t work with all readers. This is something to work at. Getting that working would boost my post count from 6 a week to about 6 per day.
Also I plan on blogging my experiences working as an editor-in-chief for dogamdponyshowwebsite.com and as a web master/participant in sicolab.org. I am hesitant to write about my actual job. On top of that, perhaps I can pull in my posts from nerdpumdit.com as well. I’ll have to ask dan about that.
I think having a focus within the site is a good thing.
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i have the same ‘who cares’ attitude about blogging, but finally decided to do it anyway. it does feel a little like being constantly stood up on dates. when i was in paris and my fake husband set up a blog for me, everyone and my mom was nagging me to tell stories, but when i got back and started actually writing them… tumbleweeds. i wanted to find a youtube vid of tumbleweeds and put it on the site. and the thing is, i don’t blame ppl for not caring about my blog. it is self-centered and dull. that’s the main reason i never did it before (that and the fact that i’m privileged to know one of the first ppl ever to ruin a career over blogging).
on the other hand, i do read other ppls blogs, such as yours, and my friend laura’s livejournal site, which gets dozens of pics from her blackberry every time she goes out drinking, and my old high school friend, whose blog i am glad for b/c it reminds me why i’m glad i don’t talk to her anymore (wow! i’m catty). i also read blogs of total strangers who i now feel like i know. i can’t tell if that’s really cool or really sad and pathetic.
bottom line: blogging is inevitable for me, because it’s the natural way for someone as lazy and undisciplined as i am to feel like a writer. after years of shunning it, i’ve decided to embrace my destiny.
ps i wrote this here instead of my blog so at least one person would read it lol
Comment by
Stevie — August 6, 2008 @ 4:36 pm
I believe you hit it right on the head when you said “blogging is inevitable for me, because it’s the natural way for someone as lazy and undisciplined as i am to feel like a writer.”
totally totally on point.
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Carlo — August 7, 2008 @ 6:02 pm