If you don't like it, don't read it
And this is exactly what I'm doing: not reading it.
This applies to the junkie tabloids as well, rife with junkie headlines and propaganda-driven articles to match.
Instead, I turn to my favourite newspapers and blogs. Additionally, I refrain from commenting on superfluous posts, or those of the nature that have been repeated 1000 times. Why? Because my comments would have been shared 1000 times over, and in any case, do people really change their way of thinking because of comments on a certain post? I suppose they do, only to a mild degree, for me at least.
As for the "power" of blogging, see "to whom it may not concern" on my bloglist. Yes, blogging does have a power.
So...what do I observe nowadays on blogworld (apart from the blogs on my list)? Complaints without constructive criticism; petty things; shallow stories; souless posts. (moryarti shares a similar viewpoint). These really bore me. Additionally, some interesting bloggers have "privatised" their blogs, which adds to the boring factor. I admit, I am one, but this is for a reason already expressed: I was being stalked.
Each to their own: people should write about what they want, but of late, I am finding blogworld seriously boring.
6-month honeymoon period? Perhaps.
12 comments:
Ugh, the blogworld is so dead these days.
I'm one to talk since I haven't updated mine in ages, but I've been busy. :P
Blogosphere is boring because of TFH's lean muscles and relatively more interesting SMSes :P
Why do I have a feeling you wrote this post after reading SD's latest entry on her blog?
Try looking for something else that's interesting. I've recently discovered podcasts :D
Well, when people started blogging, they had something to say. Now everyones blogging, and not necessarily everyone has something to say. Infact, most have nothing to say, but want to say something.
"A wise man speaks when he has something to say. A fool speaks when he has to say something"
There are plenty of interesting blogs out there, but to find them you've got to wade through the juvenilia and worse, the regurgitated local or national press extracts with unedifying 'commentary' appended by failed or wannabe journos. It's rare to find original research (true journalism), original thought, or even entertaining prose. If you're going to be second-hand, you've got to be brilliant to carry it off.
*moviemania, how's the US? :)
I didn't mean to say it was "dead" only that it's just boring for the reasons mentioned.
*al republican
Don't pay TFH so much attention coz I'm certainly not hehe
Hey SD's blog has little relevance to the post content as her blog has been quite consistent since I entered blogworld.
If you look at the uncensored blog (one of the most recent posts) you will see a number of comments on SDs blog expressing a growing dislike of her blog - although I haven't mentioned your comment on the subject, you are included in the people who find her blog increasingly "whatever the word is".
I think it's pretty obvious what I think of her latest post, but people can see right through it.
*ts long time no see! :) What the heck is podcast? I barely know what an Ipod is but I will find out soon coz I'm going on holiday and can't live without my music :P
*ammaro I think your words just sum it all up. Although I have no experience of the blogworld before I set up my blog, I cannot comment on how it was before, but I do agree with your analysis :) Nicely put
*paraglider, I will have to delve deeper into blogworld to find these blogs then ;) Would you mind providing a couple of links that you find interesting?
"the regurgitated local or national press extracts with unedifying 'commentary' appended by failed or wannabe journos."
I know what you mean! Well, that I don't mind so much, but it's the pure trash that annoys me. Trash accompanied by a degree of entertainment would be more well-received than just pure trash with even more trashy comments.
As for international news...I can't help observing BBC is becoming more CNN...it's like M&S becoming McDonalds!
im glad it made sense to you :p
I dunno about it being boring.. yet. I've only just joined, and have lots to tell still :)
It's a phase we go through - then it's over. I think it's human nature to get bored of repetition and when we distance ourselves from something coming to it is always more joyous.
Like they say absence makes the heart grow fonder
Well... I amuse myself most of the time and occasionally manage to amuse others.
I started blogging because I was so sick of the tide of moaning and bitching from the Middle East's opinionated and bitter anonybloggers. There's no doubt that a lot of blogs are losing energy. But I do think that's because they all focused on the downside of life once everyone's moaned about the same thing, then the life does tend to go out of it.
Particularly where there's no laughter to go alongside it.
Besides. A tiny universe of people write and read Middle East blogs. So we can all please ourselves safe in the knowledge that few of us can really do any harm to anyone...
ur right.. blogging is boring.. i was tempted to delete my blog many times but i keep it for one main reason - my music.
i also refuse to join facebook so i think that coupled with the above mean i spend very little time online, which kinda suits me fine.
Paraglider.. i agree with you 100%.
PS: I'm glad that I can view this blog finally. The last few months my browser kept crashing whenever I attempted to load it!
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