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As permitted by mcfnord to post here, I am writing a paper for my college English class about blogging/online journals and have written a survey about this topic. I am sorry for the off-topicness, but I figured this may be a good way to get many people's responses and correctly represent many people's opinions instead of just one ( Read more... )
As permitted by mcfnord to post here, I am writing a paper for my college English class about blogging/online journals and have written a survey about this topic. I am sorry for the off-topicness, but I figured this may be a good way to get many people's responses and correctly represent many people's opinions instead of just one ( Read more... )
1) Why do you keep a blog/online journal?
Soapbox, mirror, anonymous conference-call, a sky to shout out to: it can be any of these things. And also, the randomness of unknown responders is the only unpredictable entertainment life offers sometimes.
2) How many blogs/online journals do you have? If you have more than one, why?
I have three, one of which is very topical (about drugs.) One which is zeitgeist-politics specific for this is so important and so constant in these times. And the third, my Livejournal, is just random and untopical. The reasons should be obvious: I don't want to discuss drugs on the pages read by my family and I don't want to muddy the waters of the political issues I will at times write about with this very controversial subject. The original intention also involved getting the political rants out of my journal but that didn't work, they end up there anyway, PLUS on the blog. Syndication of categorization sections on a single blog might help simplify this in time.
3) What are the perks and snarls (pros and cons) of blogging/keeping an online journal?
There are no 'cons' for me. So there are no 'pros'. There are just blogs. (Upon which I argue OTHER pros and cons.)
4) How many hours a week would you say that you spend reading other people's blog/journals or writing in your own?
If I'm not sleeping, having sex, reading a book, buying groceries or taking my daily walk, I'm on the internet and mostly on blogs.
5) When did you start blogging?
2000, which is about when everyone else did.
6) Why did you start blogging?
I hate to say "because everyone else did" but I guess that's how it happened. Essentially the opportunity to do so came and I took it.
7) What blog services do you use? Why those specific ones?
Livejournal has the best community-building features and is cheap. I used to use Blogger but when they went pay I couldn't accept how expensive it was and how non-secure the system was. I now use Movable Type instead but it was a tremendous struggle to figure out how to use.
8) What important thing in your life wouldn't exist without blogging?
Anodyne, The Rattler and Monde's Memory Holes.
Myself in three persons. The feeling someone is listening.
Others to listen to myself without having to be physically around them to do it.
9) What is fun about blogging?
Blogging.
10) What is annoying about blogging?
Movable Type - because it's a bitch to design on, but it is also very powerful.
11) What would you consider the emotional value of blogging?
Attention.
12) What would you consider the spiritual value of blogging?
Paying attention.
13) What would you consider the practical value of blogging?
Learning how to sustain attention.
14) If you could sum up your opinion of blogging in one or two sentences, what would you say?
http://involution.org/anodyne, http://involution.org/rattler, and http://monde.livejournal.com. For, what could I say in two sentences about these links that couldn't be said best by providing them?
15) Any further commentary.
If my head didn't hurt from lack of coffee I'm sure I'd have some; alas, this is not the case today.
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