To find most blogs oh so bloggy boring...

[revolutionscoop]

....and furthermore, to find the term 'mummy blogger' excruciating? Genuinely wondering if it's just me.

Blogging not as annoying as Twitter, though, which is mere online air-kissing interspersed with mind-bending trivia most of the time.

I think blogs can be great, but none of the ones I read are people writing about their own lives, generally they are individuals/organisations writing about particular interests or issues that I'm interested in. Or just funny stuff - e.g. someone on MN linked to this a while back. hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/10/god-of-cake.html

That it true, MI.

But even the bad blogs are not harming anyone.

What was the one with Finn the baby and their super cute hand made life? She made everything and it was all gorgeous .... but she was a tad pleased about it all.

Well, if people are reading them instead of magazines they are ousting poor hardworking hacks out of the market, but that is just my perspective as a hack...

It does annoy me that people think the very act of blogging makes them somehow a 'writer' even if they are writing quite amazingly badly.

"Well, if people are reading them instead of magazines they are ousting poor hardworking hacks out of the market, but that is just my perspective as a hack..."

Maybe they are reading them instead of magazines as the magazines don't have the content they want or need.

Thats sad news about cherrys dh.
lyingwitch.....thats Custy -shes fab.

I still stand by my point about crap writing!

I read a lot of blogs but still buy magazines.

this is a friend of mine's - she's a dear friend but she just seems like a different person on this - it's so tedious, maudlin and self indulgent
blogiota.blogspot.com/

nickschick... Aha, Custy, not 'custard'... I think I'm obsessed from another thread. Yes, Custy's blog is very informative. :)

Woohoo for Hyperbole and a Half!

Glad you like the name mme, She was one hell of a woman!

Did that last year acksherly.

Its in sligo isnt it? isnt it?

Yes, it's on top of a flat mountain, very interesting silhouette.

Maybe I'll start a blog about large hills with interesting silhouettes

I blog and I am absolutely sure that 99% of what I write would bore the pants of anyone who reads it - but I'm doing it for me. I'm trying to recover from depression, and last year my DMIL suggested I try keeping a journal, and I decided to do it online, in the form of a blog. Its a way for me to think out loud about some of the issues that have led to my depression or that the depression has caused - I find writing it down sometimes helps me see things more clearly.

My reasons for doing it in a blog are very trivial and superficial - I like having a choice of fonts and backgrounds to make it look nice, and I find it easier to sit at the keyboard and write a blog post than to sit down and write one in a notebook. And sometimes someone writes something nice, which is heartening. But weeks can go by without a single, solitary soul reading my blog, and that doesn't matter to me at all.

I've also found some very funny blogs (unintentionally funny ones like the one about baby Finn and his elimination communication corner), and a number of knitting ones with some good patterns on them.

"but I'm doing it for me. I'm trying to recover from depression, and last year my DMIL suggested I try keeping a journal, and I decided to do it online, in the form of a blog."

I've been doing the same. Not just about feelings, things that have happened, but also opinions or things that I've found interesting. Somewhere online is a very old blog of mine, from when I was 19 and very mentally ill. Makes for interesting reading now.

DH and I are also keeping a joint journal, with the aim that when we eventually (hopefully) have a child we can continue to keep a journal of our lives for them to look back on when they've grown up. That one of course is hidden, and for our eyes only.

For the record, and to be fair, I did say "most" blogs. There are undoubtedly some interesting & well written blogs about, but the vaaaaasst majority fall (for me) into the ho hum category.

Is it overmydeadbody who has the soresourceful blog. Cant link on my phone but its really good she is very talented. Also the one with all the lovely dresses, cant think of her name is it madame something.

I was reading this in a cringing posture b/c I saw this worrying thread title on my stats page & was expecting that someone had linked to me as evidence of how boring blogs are. MMoS, you have made my week.

On topic: I mean yes, sure, lots of blogs are bad, but that is inevitable given the numbers out there. Lots are really, really good. Part of the fun is tracking down the ones that resonate with you. It does take time and a certain frame of mind to want to bother, but if you get into it you do discover some fantastic stuff.

Of course it is not for everyone - what is? - but there is huge variety of content and some really well-written, thoughtfully presented stuff out there.

MmeLindor's blog is excellent, IMO. And there are lots of other really good blogs linked from the MN bloggers "new posts" thread; GentleOtter's is beautiful. And there are a lot of fab photography blogs around the web generally. And I love I Blame the Patriarchy for being incisive and really damn funny. I found it via a link someone posted on a MN thread. And of course there's the koi assisted birth blog, which is either a pretty good gag, or entertaining evidence that some people are very misguided.

motherinferior - exactly...
blogs/blags/monoblogs/monobollocks/sound of one voice yapping....
dull, dull, dull.