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Re: Blogging thoughts
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Hi Rab,
What is the address of your blog?
I am pondering a blog like idea I was discussing over the Christmas break.
Taking a photo a day to encapsulate life this year and posting it somewhere.
I have a yawn inducing website I mite post them on and try some blogging.
Ho hum
David
Robert Charleston <rc3673@student.open.ac.uk> wrote:
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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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