to find blogs just a bit....

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banal, dull, uninteresting and utterly pointless? Or am I just out of touch with the way of the modern world.

Some are dreadfully dull but others are incredibly funny, poignant or interesting.

I adore this one.

behindthechild.blogspot.com/

It's very well written, her two daughters are so beautiful and seem like such darlings, and it almost always makes me smile.

I've also developed an addiction to a blog by a paramedic,Traumaqueen it's called, which is terribly interesting and again, very well written.

The vast majority are interminably dull exercises in navel gazing. There is the odd gem out there though. I like Amazing trips.

YANBU - I just can't see the point! I have a website that i set up 2 years + ago when we moved. Intntion being that I could keep friends and fanily updated as to what we were up to.. DH has been nagging me to update it. But I struggle. it was exciting when we moved countries. New house, new school, new shops, new way of life etc. After 2 years, I go to work, I go shopping, I do housework, occasionaly we have a day out somewhere. What am I supposed to write on the fecking thing that anyone could be interested in? So writing a daily blog......

Thanks, will take a look. I obviously haven't persevered enough to find any worth sticking with.

I just find them generally as dull as having to look at other people's holiday photos.

I still can't quite see why bloggers do it. It's a bit like writing a diary and then inviting comments from total strangers. Why? Are they all narcissistic attention seekers, or hoping to get a book deal like Petite Anglaise or Wife in the North?

I agree. Fucking self indulgent navel gazing. Every blighter convinced they have a novel in them.
Er.....no.

yes i dont get it at all

live life stop writing about it for no marks to read

x-post Mme Bovary. Quite agree about reading about someones shopping trip and daily chores. My own life is full of the mundane so why would I spend my free time reading about someone else's.

Glad I'm not alone...

Most dull, with the exception of the divine Daphne Wayne-Bough, who is a friend of mine and hysterical.

It's basically the sort of people who used to deluge publishers with appalling unreadablly boring manuscripts about their shitey little lives because they'd once got A+ very good for their English homework.
About one in 1000 is good, the rest are (as someone else, forget who, once said, 28 million people going 'Look! I exist! And I've got a cat.'

Am I the only one who loves looking at other people's holiday pics?

Admittedly my mate wrote a brilliant one but it got her into trouble at work .

The trouble with 99% of blogs is that the bloggers can't write. It makes the blogs unreadable. I do like Wife in the North though.

Self indulgent tosh

I was just going to post that, Molly.

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Great minds Drivel

They are mostly pointless unless they have a specific purpose.

The ones I find interesting, as a writer, are

a) the agents who blog about their work and the stuff they have sold and the mad-as-cheese stuff they have been sent, especially those who critique stuff online like Query Shark
and
b) fellow writers talking about what they are working on, who they have been schmoozing with, tips picked up from conferences etc., e.g. David Bishop's Vicious Imagery.

Then to a certain extent c) blogs by publishers themselves.

I find Wife In the North a load of smug self-indulgent pants.

Don't you think she can write, uqd?

She can, but she does witter so... I don't find what she writes about all that interesting.

Molly - and fools seldom differ

I have to say that the media can often use them as if they are something important when they aren't....I listen a lot to Radio 5 Live and they use a lot of "Bloggers" for opinion, as if "blogging" was a job..

They never introduce someone as "Dave, who has opinions on a lot of stuff that he just pours out randomly on the internet not caring if its researched or not, or is offensive. There is no requirement for dave to be witty or clever..."

We can all set up- a blog. We could all post "wibble wibble" every day....wouldn't make any of us interesting...

Also like Iain Dale's political blog - opinionated and informed.

I am horrified to discover that the blog to which I posted a link earlier is now full of holiday pictures

She used to write really funny things, honest!

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