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Well, I'm less than a week into my one-month experiment in writing a blog.
I love the format and the look of mine, but I've had some serious thoughts
on blogging as an occupation. They run along the lines of:
My God! Why would anybody do this? My life, taken day-to-day, turns out to
be very boring. It's only interesting *in the round*. Which you don't get
from the details of what I actually do. Are these other blogging people
making things up, are their lives more interesting than mine, or are they
just happy to write banalities? Who reads this stuff? And my Goodness it's
a chore. The first couple of days were an absolute delight, but now it's
becoming a shadow over each day to construct something at least structured
and of interest to a few people. I don't find writing about myself much
fun. Argh!
And it is so easy to just start whinging and moaning when you've got free
space. It's awful!
Without getting all John-the-Baptist about this, one day there will be a
philosopher who can write this extra content online natively without any
extra conceptual effort. But it isn't me. I've been very proud of being
one of the first philosophy undergrads to really use the net natively, to
be able to put together a mailing list or site as easily as a reading
group or research paper. But this blogging experience has revealed to me
that - at best - I'm version 1.5 of British philosophers. The true version
2.0 who can write this stuff natively and equally to papers with pen and
furrowed brow is yet to come. I may (or may not) be worthy to tweak his
CSS.
Still, it's only by pushing yourself that you learn what you are. I guess
sometimes you are going to be a bit disappointed. I was as a kid when it
turned out I wasn't royalty, for instance...
Has anybody else tried this blogging stuff?
I've never even managed to write a diary for more than two days in a row,
so perhaps it was a bit over-hopeful.
I think I'm going back to essays.
Rab.
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