The New York Times Magazine featured a story yesterday on blogging. Now, in general, most blogs--especially mine--struggle to be interesting, but writing about blogging--that that can be a snore-fest. A self-indulgent treatment of self-indulgence?
Still, the article raised some interesting questions about the motivation for blogging. The author cast the "will to blog" very dramatically in writing:
"The will to blog is a complicated thing, somewhere between inspiration and compulsion. It can feel almost like a biological impulse. You see something, or an idea occurs to you, and you have to share it with the Internet as soon as possible. What I didn’t realize was that those ideas and that urgency — and the sense of self-importance that made me think anyone would be interested in hearing what went on in my head — could just disappear."
Her blogging reads like a cross between reality TV and Entertainment Tonight with a little bit of Sex and the City thrown in. Somehow in a big city like New York, small, personal details become important and interesting in a way I don't experience out here in the rural-burgs of NE CT.
At this point it would be logical for me to figure out my motivations for blogging and how I would characterize the blog, but... blogging about blogging is usually boring, and I would certainly not be an exception.
Thanks David for the link.
Still, the article raised some interesting questions about the motivation for blogging. The author cast the "will to blog" very dramatically in writing:
"The will to blog is a complicated thing, somewhere between inspiration and compulsion. It can feel almost like a biological impulse. You see something, or an idea occurs to you, and you have to share it with the Internet as soon as possible. What I didn’t realize was that those ideas and that urgency — and the sense of self-importance that made me think anyone would be interested in hearing what went on in my head — could just disappear."
Her blogging reads like a cross between reality TV and Entertainment Tonight with a little bit of Sex and the City thrown in. Somehow in a big city like New York, small, personal details become important and interesting in a way I don't experience out here in the rural-burgs of NE CT.
At this point it would be logical for me to figure out my motivations for blogging and how I would characterize the blog, but... blogging about blogging is usually boring, and I would certainly not be an exception.
Thanks David for the link.
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