Do you blog?

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shifty_uk said:
Not interested if I'm honest. The same reason I don't care for social networking sites - I'm not into the idea of people sharing their life stories/images with others.

I'll only read if they have something useful/worth while to say.
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Same here, I think it's just another fad for the masses to latch onto.

wush said:
Spelling/grammar mistakes vs. repeating fads worn threadbare. WHO WINS?!
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Well said :D.
 
iBot said:
Noones life is intresting enough for me to care about reading what ever those fools get up to.
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I blog, but not about my life. Mine is a pop-culture blog. For instance, if I see a movie or play a game that I like (for example) I write an entry about it. There is nothing about how I'm feeling, or bitching about girls etc. In fact I consciously try to avoid referring to myself as much as possible.
 
I don't think that you necessarily have to be recounting interesting things that have happened in your life to have a good personal blog. If you're a good writer you can make almost anything amusing or informative.
 
seek said:
I blog, but not about my life. Mine is a pop-culture blog. For instance, if I see a movie or play a game that I like (for example) I write an entry about it. There is nothing about how I'm feeling, or bitching about girls etc. In fact I consciously try to avoid referring to myself as much as possible.
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are you purposefully not linking to it? I wanted to read it before and you didn't link :o
 
No, because I don't think anyone would find it that interesting. I don't read any as I don't really care what other people are doing each day.
 
I didn't quite mean to say they are ALL like that. Feel free to post some interesting ones.
 
Muffin` said:
I'd read semi-pro's, clv101's, HangTime's and maybe Fox's.
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If I'm the semi-pro you mean then thank you, I'm not sure my views would be interesting enough for their own blog but I think the other guys you mention could be.

Back to topic, I'm not sure whether to be happy or depressed that I only knew of about 5 of those 50 blogs before just now, the one by Andrew Sullivan (The Daily Dish) sounds like it could be the most interesting from the potted description due to the somewhat paradoxical nature of the writer. Samizdata also looks to be quite interesting and deeply cynical which pleases me no end.
 
I blog, but only because it is a requirement of professional development during teacher training. In some ways I have found it very useful, however I would probably enjoy it more if I didn't have to do it weekly - not like we have enough to do already on a PGCE.

Might keep it up post course, not sure yet.
 
"blog" is a verb now?

This is almost as bad as "glass" "knife" "bottle" all being accepted as verbs.
 
Ben M said:
"blog" is a verb now?

This is almost as bad as "glass" "knife" "bottle" all being accepted as verbs.
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You have "a" blog, you (write a) blog (post), therefore you blog, verb.

You (search for a website on) google, you google, verb.

What is it, exactly, that's upsetting you? New words get added to languages all the time. Did you get upset when someone invented the word "blog" as a noun, too?
 
Sic said:
You have "a" blog, you (write a) blog (post), therefore you blog, verb.

You (search for a website on) google, you google, verb.

What is it, exactly, that's upsetting you? New words get added to languages all the time. Did you get upset when someone invented the word "blog" as a noun, too?
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It just sounds nasty in my opinion, using nouns as verbs just comes across as lazy. It's no different, to me, to saying "I music" instead of "I compose music".

And the knife/glass/bottle thing I just find really quite sad and indicative of culture in this country, which is, as far as I know, the only country where such words are considered verbs. Not because they are nounds used as verbs, but because of the meaning of them when used as verbs.
 
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