Different blog styles.
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valis2I've been blogging for my business on blogspot or blogger or whatever the hell it's called for a couple months.
I have to say that, while I relish being able to finally talk openly about crafting and business, at the same time, I'm a bit bored by it.
A lot of the crafting/professional blog people have this tone. This precious, artsy, aren't-I-clever tone that just sets my teeth on edge. I've been assembling a "flist" of people to read, but I find that some of them are already boring me beyond belief. There's one who talks about her kid on and on*. There's lots of plugging of other blogs. There's this "networking" perfume over everything.
Eventually, though, it all comes down to the same thing, which I discovered when I first started reading LJ regularly. I find that some bloggers can write an entry about clipping their toenails and I will be riveted, and others can talk about how they were sunbathing nude on the front steps of the Vatican and were caught by the Pope and chastized by a team of archbishops and I would yawn.
There are more than a few blogs I've started reading that are about art, inspiration and creativity, and they're fantastic. But I'm still having trouble with the majority of them, because unless I know the person professionally, they blend and blur together, and they're waaay forgettable. See, I am now having the same problem with bloggers that I do with faces in RL...I can't remember who people are, and many of their entries just dissolve into foam in my head about 2.67 seconds after I read the entry. And it's worse on Blogger because I don't care as much. I'm liking the creative portion of Blogger, I'm really enjoying keeping up with some of them, but the others are not as memorable. In fact, there are several I haven't even bothered reading since I got back.
Don't get me wrong. I am enjoying the new blog. But I'm just not as into it as LJ. I love the general tone here. Less coy and affected. Less precious. At one point I was a bit worried that I was not as into LJ, and that blogger might steal me away, but I find that blogger has made me more aware of what I like about LJ. And that's all of you.
*Actually, I do like entries about kids, and I find them really intriguing...again, it comes down to how it's written. If it's precocious or if there's little point, it's not that interesting, just like any other subject, whether it's cricket, champagne, or claustrophobia.
PS: I apologize in advance, but I will not be listing the journal name, for the same reason as always--it is not just my own privacy I am protecting. Thanks.
I have to say that, while I relish being able to finally talk openly about crafting and business, at the same time, I'm a bit bored by it.
A lot of the crafting/professional blog people have this tone. This precious, artsy, aren't-I-clever tone that just sets my teeth on edge. I've been assembling a "flist" of people to read, but I find that some of them are already boring me beyond belief. There's one who talks about her kid on and on*. There's lots of plugging of other blogs. There's this "networking" perfume over everything.
Eventually, though, it all comes down to the same thing, which I discovered when I first started reading LJ regularly. I find that some bloggers can write an entry about clipping their toenails and I will be riveted, and others can talk about how they were sunbathing nude on the front steps of the Vatican and were caught by the Pope and chastized by a team of archbishops and I would yawn.
There are more than a few blogs I've started reading that are about art, inspiration and creativity, and they're fantastic. But I'm still having trouble with the majority of them, because unless I know the person professionally, they blend and blur together, and they're waaay forgettable. See, I am now having the same problem with bloggers that I do with faces in RL...I can't remember who people are, and many of their entries just dissolve into foam in my head about 2.67 seconds after I read the entry. And it's worse on Blogger because I don't care as much. I'm liking the creative portion of Blogger, I'm really enjoying keeping up with some of them, but the others are not as memorable. In fact, there are several I haven't even bothered reading since I got back.
Don't get me wrong. I am enjoying the new blog. But I'm just not as into it as LJ. I love the general tone here. Less coy and affected. Less precious. At one point I was a bit worried that I was not as into LJ, and that blogger might steal me away, but I find that blogger has made me more aware of what I like about LJ. And that's all of you.
*Actually, I do like entries about kids, and I find them really intriguing...again, it comes down to how it's written. If it's precocious or if there's little point, it's not that interesting, just like any other subject, whether it's cricket, champagne, or claustrophobia.
PS: I apologize in advance, but I will not be listing the journal name, for the same reason as always--it is not just my own privacy I am protecting. Thanks.
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Date: 2008-09-01 04:33 am (UTC)I think because LiveJournals tend not to be about businesses, there's not a need to maintain a professional sheen about what's in them (and it's probably why some blogspot people have a snooty attitude about LiveJournals not being real blogs). LJ's threaded comments make a world of difference too. I honestly don't see why other platforms haven't taken it up.
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Date: 2008-09-01 04:40 am (UTC)That makes a lot of sense. I feel like there's a lot more heartfelt stuff on LJ, and a lot more writing that's just for the helluvit, and it doesn't have that sheen you mention.
Some of the sheeny journals make me close the tab very quickly. I just can't take it. I'm so used to the LJ tone after four years that some of the blogger journals sound completely artificial, as if they're put together by a marketing team who is attempting to sound like a human.
And people don't seem to respond to comments in the same way. There are a lot of bloggers who never respond to any comments at all. I love LJ's threads as well and wish that other places had them.