a new adventure

Greetings, bloggers.

I don't know if this is something that I will be able to keep up with (time will tell), but I have found myself more and more wanting to comment on things that I see/read/hear and I don't know if facebook is exactly the right venue to post some of these comments. So here we are.

I actually had a blog when I was in university. It hasn't been updated since summer of 2007. Somehow I ended up with two different blogger accounts, and I can't figure out how to link the two. So...I have decided to leave the old blog behind. Too bad, because I really liked the name and URL, but I think perhaps the musings of my late teens / very early twenties are best left in the past anywho ;)

I had a discussion with library book club about how blogging has changed in the last decade. We were reading the book "The Gospel According to Larrry" by Janet Tashjian, in which the main character sets up an anonymous blog that gains a huge cult following. craziness ensues. The book was published in 2001. While I certainly don't fancy myself a blog expert, it seems to me that the nature of blogging has changed since the book came out. What I mean is that in 2001 I knew a few people who blogged, and they all used screen names, graphics for photos, and didn't reveal too much "real" info. Today in '10, I can probably name 5 people off of the top of my head who blog, some use their real names and almost all have their actual photos up.

We talked a lot about this, and I am still thinking about it over a week later. Is the message diminished when the blogger is someone we know and loathe? Conversely, are we inclined to post more encouraging comments when we like the poster but feel lukewarm or worse about the actual post?


A little something for you to think about.