I discovered Google Scholar today! Its a very interesting to search with. You find all sorts of documents you might not every find otherwise. Like I searched blogging, and found a dearth of articles. I just finished reading an article from some students at Standford. They wrote on blogging. It was kind of stimulating, but not really. They spoke about blogs as a place for "thinking while writing" and such. *sigh* Yeah, only kind of interesting.
Don't forget to read the rest of my rant!
Oh! I just found the Visual Thesaurus! I have seen this before but never played with it. It looks wonderful! I saw it once, years ago on TSS. I miss those guys. I haven't downloaded the podcast, but I might. Since its done in podcasting, I don't know if I want to sit and listen to half an hour of audio. Maybe I will though.
I feel like my paragraphs are getting smaller and smaller. The more I write the more I feel like spacing my text dramatically. I keep putting less and less sentences together. I don't know why. I can't explain. I think it might have something to do with seeing so many posts from people who don't know that they can start new paragraphs. I am sure you have all seen them. People do it all the time. Especially at Xanga.com. I feel that Xanga has a lower quality blog out put than Blogger. I think its bloggers just tend to be younger at Xanga. And the web design skills displayed there continually appall me. Ughh... The neon frame designs kill my eyes.
I don't know what I think about places like Movable Type, My Space or livejournal. I guess its great that there are so many options, but sometimes I feel like the different flavors detract from the blogging atmosphere. Take my space for instance, it really just seems like a social network instead of a blogging tool. Which very well maybe what it is... In the end good blogging comes down to the individual person. How much time and effort he puts into it. I don't care if you write well, as long as you put effort into your posts.
Yeah... Well... I think that's it for this ramble folks.
Chau
2 comments:
Don't be an elitist buddy. Everyone gets to play in their own way.
I'm not being elitist, I'm just disapointed in the lack of effort some people put into their blogs.
As I said:
"In the end good blogging comes down to the individual person. How much time and effort he puts into it. I don't care if you write well, as long as you put effort into your posts"
It really is the thought that counts. A lot of good blogs are not terriably well written. But they do try hard.
Chau
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