...........what do you think of them?

I've just discovered this new trend and I'm still trying to get my head round it.

Has anyone from the SF got a blog site?

Do you know any interesting or famous ones, as they are so many to look through.

Views anyone.

I have seen a few but not an interesting one..

So please brag if you have an interesting one.

I have one, it is unlikely anyone is interested but thats not why I do it, I do it for a sake of getting it out of my system and I find typing much easier than writing due to my dyspraxia.

I tend to write in a train of thought style about things and it is always just what I've done when important events have happened. It is never emotional whining cos to be honest, thats isn't what I'd post for anyone to read, you cope with it from your friends because it affects you, with a complete stranger, it's just laughable.

Wilf

I'd love to have a blog, but unfortunately I'm not 15 and depressed ;)

Yes I know there are a (very) few interesting ones, but I can't remember the last time I saw one! Was this in response to the BBC article today about how a new blog is created every second? That brings me out in a cold sweat of dread...

Its the personal and private stuff about other people that appears in some of them that upsets me. Many Bloggs are open to the general public and the information is not always something that should be displayed.

then you find your partner has a private Blogg which he or she allows a few chosen friends to see but does not tell you about until long after he or she started it, and you cannot help wondering what sort of things have been said about you.

Mostly though - they are great for misinformation as they only put across your side of any story. When the other person has no way to respond ... well!

Mainly - do you want your best friend putting up stuff about you that you see as personal for everyone to see, and then to be told that this blogg is viewed as just your personal diary and not taken to heart? Yeah right.

One of the worst things ever created on the net.

Dragon

Peoples lives must be VERY boring if you have to resort to reading about someone else’s boring life for entertainment!

Just watch Eastenders, its like a blogg with moving pictures :D

Not always the case Serapis. I know people to use their bloggs to let others know what is going on in their lives that they do not want other people to know about. So if you had met a lass ort lad you fancied you could put that in your private blogg and only allow your best pals to see it knowing they would not tell your partner.

But it is just a way of letting others know that you have nothing really important or honest to say and you should get out more.

Dragon

I've got one, but it's rather a bit too personal for this forum.... but if you are interested in seeing it pm me and I'll consider :loopy:

Originally posted by Hook
I've got one, but it's rather a bit too personal for this forum.... but if you are interested in seeing it pm me and I'll consider :loopy:

Likewise; I have a blog that contains rather a lot of personal information about me. However, it is available without me having to tell you the address - that is, to the more diligent amongst you.

In terms of what place blogs have on the internet - frankly I don't care. I find that writing about events that interest me to a hypothetical audience (if the 4 or so people who regularly read my scribbles actually quantify an 'audience') means they become more ordered in my own head. My decision to blog wasn't made for the benefit of mankind or indeed to provide entertainment for the vast numbers of bored web-surfers.

Blogging has also reduced the number of 'keep in touch' emails I have to write to people: We all just keep on top of one anothers activities through our blogs which is quite a benefit in itself.

I have a blog. Its useful on a blog ring to keep an eye on what people are doing. It has fallen into disrepair and usually only used for film reviews or rants ;)

Originally posted by Dragon
One of the worst things ever created on the net.
I couldn't disagree with you more completely. They're one of the best things ever created about the net. I love the fact that everyone has such easy access to a global audience, and I love the fact that it's such a personal medium: yes, there's a hell of a lot of angst-ridden teenagers out there who aren't really worth reading, and a lot of blogs that never progress beyond their first entry, but the blog universe is almost infinite, and there's some wonderful, moving and very informative stuff out there. Each blog is different, and that's part of their appeal: they're not corporate, sanitized and packaged like so much of what we're fed nowadays.

I've had my own blog at http://www.sumption.org/lifeless/ for nearly five years now: it's a random assortment mainly of stuff I like to share with a few close friends of mine who I know are regular readers, but also stuff that I'd like to stick somewhere I can find it later, and just random stuff that enters my head and I feel ought to be written down. I don't write with any particular audience in mind other than myself, although I'm mindful of the few people who I know do read it, and also of the fact that friends and loved ones who I don't expect to read it one day may (in fact, just this weekend I discovered that my twelve year-old cousin had been keeping my uncle and aunt up-to-date on my life, via reading my blog, which felt a little strange), so to some extent that does shape what I do and, more importantly, don't write.

I belong to a private mailing list called Antiweb, 10 years old this month, who started what may have been the first ever experiment in blogging: around eight years ago we had a thing called posi-web, the idea being that whenever something happened in your life which made you want to write/post pictures, you did so, but it was always supposed to be temporary, you tore it down whenever you put a new page up. Most people never quite followed that instruction and there are still Posi-web pages orphaned all over the Internet. My own Posi-web entry page is still up here: http://www.sumption.org/posi-web/ - with individual pages still hidden away on my web-server.

I've been blogging for 4 years on a more 'specialist' site and have 400 entries. It's a site used by some of my R/L friends and I have met many more through blogging there. I also have another more ordinary blog on a site called 20six. On there I can do multiple blogs, and photo blogs, all under the same username.

I love blogging, probably because I love writing. I know my more 'specialist' blogs are read by a lot of people but not sure if anyone reads my others very much.

I write about alsorts. I use it as my personal off loading space too. Its good to be able to write down how I am feeling and not have to explain myself to anyone in the process.

I've been 'blogging' (I called it my web diary from the first - before the word blog was really used) for about 3 or 4 years?

It's part of my whole website though.

The link is http://whatrhymeswithrosie.tripod.com/diary.html

It's just been on Classic FM that there's one created every second!

That's about 80,000 a day :o worldwide.

Originally posted by noseyrosie
The link is http://whatrhymeswithrosie.tripod.com/diary.html
Rosie... you went up to Edinburgh with the Woodcraft Folk? You probably met my eldest, Rowan, then!

Like I said, I love the things you discover reading peoples' blogs. It makes the world a smaller place.

I used to have a blog about 5-6 years ago, kept it up until last year then decided to can it as it seemed every tom dick and harry has one.

Joel

What is a blog??????????

A blog is short for Weblog, otherwise known as an online diary.

I have a blog, I update it about my training and fundraising for my walk. Its a way of keeping track of what I have been doing, and how I feel about the whole raising £2000 walking 60km thing.

Also means that anyone who has sponsored me can keep up to date with what I'm doing without getting loads of emails. I think once the walk is complete it will be nice to look over all the photos and ramblings and remember what I did.

The ones that relate to web stuff I find very interesting but that's because that's what I do. I think blogs that are all 'today I did some shopping' are totally boring as they are utterly meaningless. Then again in this day of Big Brother etc it seems everyone is interested in someone elses life.

Originally posted by probedb
I think blogs that are all 'today I did some shopping' are totally boring as they are utterly meaningless.
Depends how they are written. It's possible to write about shopping in an interesting way (though I agree "today I did some shopping" isn't it) - anyone who's read Joris Karl Huysman's book "Against Nature" (A Rebours) will agree that the most trivial things can be made fascinating if well written.

That's not to say that most blogs are well written, but you can't knock people for having a go, I'm sure even Huysman started somewhere.