In which FP considers how to find someone
Written by Forest Pines; published at 9:20 am on October 27th, 2005.
Filed under: Polling.
If this site was hosted on Livejournal,* it wouldn’t just be limited to entries. I could do exciting spiffy things like host polls. Instead, if I want to ask you to vote on things, I have to do it manually.
This is all leading up to me asking you a poll question, of course. And today’s Poll Question I’m Going To Regret** is:
Should I try answering personal ads in the local paper?
Go on, tell me what you think. New “only if you’re going to blog about it” answers, please.
* rather than being one of your geeky WordPress things with hand-edited templates and customised everything.
** It’s in capitals because, you never know, this might end up being an ongoing series.
Keyword noise: dating, personal ads, poll, public humiliation, surveys
In which we consider what modern blogging is and isn’t
Written by Forest Pines; published at 7:50 pm on October 7th, 2005.
Filed under: Geekery, Media Addict.
More from The Guardian: in the UK, an entire third of the 14-21 age group have started their own blog.
However, what that doesn’t say is that most of these blogs aren’t very interesting to outsiders; just pages of teenage gossip and bitching.* The Guardian has been over-hyping blogs for a while now, and “look, they’ve all got them!” really isn’t the important part of this story.
You’ll pick up on the important aspect of this, though, if you read the whole thing. It’s communication. The blogs the article mentions aren’t the big new revolution in publishing – they’re the big new revolution in Keeping In Touch. Most of the blogs on the internet now aren’t the sort of thing that the general public want to read. They’re online diaries to keep in touch with your friends, to tell them what you’ve been doing. The general public don’t read them, either – only the blogger’s friends do. In fact, they’re just the same as the traditional Personal Home Page of 1994 – the only difference is that they’re much easier to create.
* As opposed to this site, which is pages and pages of twentysomething gossip and bitching.
Keyword noise: blog, blogging, communication, Home Page, hype, surveys, The Guardian
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