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April 02, 2005
What's blogging about, exactly?
We know we annoy some people with our posts on politics. The environment. The media. Food and wine. All those random things we cast our toad-like eyes upon, from time to time. We know we're supposed to be, purely and simply, a technology blog.
Well, we're mainly a technology blog, but somehow we think the [admittedly brief] tradition of blogging demands that these things should to some extent, reflect the character and interests of the blogger. And our range of interests is pretty broad.
We also reflect, from time to time, on the dynamic between blogs and traditional media, and whether blogs will eventually take a significant slice of the mindshare of the mass media. Here's an interesting comment on that.
We found this particularly amusing:
If you regularly write nonsense or lies (or if you can't write at all) then people won't read your blog and few people will take any notice of you. (I'd add that this isn't always the case in the mainstream media.) If you want to run a blog that people will be interested in then you have to find an audience, build it up, look after it, deliver something interesting and readable.
Posted by cw at April 2, 2005 12:04 PM
Comments
You don't annoy me with your non tech comments Charles, I find them refreshing.
Posted by: Calamanthus at April 2, 2005 01:23 PM
Aww, shucks. We're all embarrassed now. But thanks.
Posted by: cw at April 2, 2005 02:21 PM
>>If you want to run a blog that people will be interested in then you have to find an audience, build it up, look after it, deliver something interesting and readable.
>> sounds like boingboing!!!!
Posted by: Alister at April 2, 2005 03:11 PM
I actually peruse the non tech musings first, so don't even consider dicing them. But I'm a lefty so I find myself nodding a lot.
Posted by: Uisdean at April 2, 2005 04:07 PM