« Tech reading | Main | Retro music »

Metablogging

|

Been spending some time reading the blog Fuzzy Blogic. I especially took interest in Jacob Schwirtz's comments about metablogging (and more comments about metablogging).

I also have run across the The One Percent Bloggers W/ Content Web Ring, which is:

"...a webring for those Blogs that actually provide content and not just links to other Blogs and useless sites. You won't find they typical "This is so funny!" or "Dude check this out now!!!" links on our Blogs."

OK, I'm one of the guilty. I post silly links, and just gobs and gobs of links in general. I metablog (blog about blogging). I post whingeing crap that the vast majority of humanity does not give a rat's ass about.

I feel torn between the urge to try and do better, and the urge to defend my not doing better. (Dammit, I'm metablogging again.) Taking the latter tack for now, I'll point you to my inaugural post for this blog, as well as my post that explains some more of what this blog is about.

If your interests are similar to mine, then presumably you will like the links that I post. If not, you will likely think this blog is a piece of crap and move on. And while I don't really know how many people who know me personally actually bother to read this thing (one of you has confessed that you do), then I suppose this gives you an opportunity to see how I'm doing, since I really suck at keeping in touch with people. (I keep saying I'm going to work on that.)

As for trying harder to post actual content, I'd like to work on that too. But it's tough, y'know -- writer's block scares the shit out of me (although not as badly as it used to) and it's all I can do to just sit at the keyboard and bash out stuff, without worrying whether or not what I'm writing is pure journalistic brilliance. I'll try to be interesting. But sometimes I'm going to bore you silly.

BTW, do take the time to read Fuzzy Blogic if you have the chance.