Blogs can be dangerous. Quality is often determined by the blog's ability to speak to a certain subject in a creative, elegant and concise way (insert sentence of self-deprecation here) while speaking to other things through that subject, For example--A blog about walking across the United States can be entertaining and a commentary on fitness, will power, American Life, etc. But besides all you obsessive compulsives out there, who wants to spend time just writing about ONE thing? Don't answer that. Obviously a lot of people do and I am in the minority. Again. Damn!
The other kind of blog--the diary--is just too revealing for many people although the good ones tend to act like a buillion cube--a lot of flavor in a itsy-bitsy cube.
So here's the issue: How does one find a middle point (if that's what one wants, which this one does) between the two above? Can you fit your blog's purpose into one pithy sentence? I've tried, to no avail.
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STOP TRYING TO SELL ME SHIT LIKE PRIVATE ROAD CONSTRUCTION! DAMN!
And if I was interested in making money I would not be an academic.
Is there anyone out there who knows how to get these jerks from posting to my blog? I supposed I wouldn't be so frustrated if other people actually posted comments, but still. Who knew there were mosquitoes in cyberspace?
Hey, It pisses me off, too!
I don't have anything particularly constructive to add here, just a brief show of solidarity.
Several of my friends have Live Journal blogs, and I have never seen any sales messages in the comments to their blogs. Do you think they might have a better filtering system, or are they just frantically erasing sales comments all the time and I don't notice?
Anyway, I'm glad to see you're writing a lot more here, and it's very engaging (real stuff, and often makes me laugh or think...or even both, imagine!)So keep it up and don't let the sales creeps get you down.
Renee
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