on blahgging - disjointed ramblings

[snallison]

here i am! at the boys house, with a huge pot of coffee, my books, and about 5 consecutive hours of studying ahead of me. with the requisite tribe breaks, of course. i think i will drink the entire 8 cup pot of cawfee, just because i can. this post has been brought to you by the letter caffeine

Comments

[headlouse]

I refuse to use Tribe's crippled blog system for the very reasons you dislike it.

Personally I've begun to hate Tribe lately and seldom go there any more. They keep pouring on more and more half-assed functionality at the expense of user interface-their site is ugly and confusing to navigate. I kinda liked their evite function but when they tried to become craigslist, I groaned, and then when they tried to become a blogging service, I gagged. They should really stop trying to be everything at once because at this point they are doing none of it well.

Live Journal has decent enough functionality for me at the moment (at least they don't toss ads in the middle of your posts like tribe) but I may upgrade to a better blog service at some point (mainly when I ever come up with a good content niche to talk about besides my personal ramblings)

Personally I read tons of blogs every day: Boing Boing, Mind Hacks, other neuro-blogs, the occasional political blog, and other misc.. Additionally I'm slowly changing over to using an RSS reader to read it all.

Answers:
- Personally I dislike it when there isn't any capitalization, unless there is a poetic or other purpose for such, as it makes it harder to glean.
- Only if it's kitten's with guns
- Developing a habit of ignoring spelling/grammer does more harm than good for one's writing skills; and personally I'd like to continue to improve my writing skills. Creative spelling/grammer for effect is a different matter but most people are not being creative, just lazy.
- Yes do keep your paragraphs concise and gleanable unless you have reason not to but don't refrain from using big polysyllabic words-I like learning new words.
- Was your breakfast interesting?
- I replied.

[snallison]

You have inspired me to write in proper sentence case from this point going forward. Thank you!

[headlouse]

Yay! Maybe now we can move on to cool punctuation like the usage of em dash's* and semicolons! :)

* Sadly you need to type "—" in order to display a proper em dash in a browser ("–" for an en dash), which makes it a bit of a pain but they're cool enough of a punctuation to be worth the effort.