15 Tags

FOR FAR TOO LONG HAVE I NEGLECTED THIS TAG, so here it is:

1-Do you like the look and the contents of your blog?

I'd like to fix up the blog layout one day. I fiddled with it to allow large images on higher resolutions, and that screwed it up. The contents rock, hardcore. The author is a legendary blogging artisan. (What kind of question was that anyway?)

2-Does your family know about your blog?

Probably, I don't know. I might've told them about it at some point. Not sure if they're hip to the concept, or that they'd care.

3-Can you tell your friends about your blog? Do you consider it a private thing?

Yes. No. How can it be private - it's a freakin' blog. A diary for all the world to see. Anonymity is important and real life persona should remain private (what with all these nutters about and all.)

4-Do you just read the blogs of those who comment on your blog? or you try to discover new blogs?

Ya, read 'em all. So many blogs. Usually find I never have anything useful to add, so don't comment greatly.

5-Did your blog positively affect your mind? Give an example.

Yes. Maybe. I dunno, I'd need some mind condition measuring device to tell.

6-What does the number of visitors to your blog mean? Do you use a traffic counter?

The number of visitors to my blog is directly related to the number of times I've used the word boob, the number of misspellings of words, and other generally rudish words. I got a tracking thingy, it's neat. It tells me how many people Google for watermelon boobs and get here. Neat. *sigh*

7-Did you imagine how other bloggers look like?

I'm 28, an adult, my imagination pissed off when puberty hit. Picture a sleeping donkey with flys surrounding it, that's what's going on upstairs. If you struggle to picture it, that's exactly my point, welcome aboard.

8-Do you think blogging has any real benefit?

Yes. They're remarkably informative - lot's of blogs highlight issues you may have missed in the newspapers, on TV, that sort of thing. They do give a slightly louder voice to the voiceless. This is the Google-world now, if there's no search results, it doesn't exist. We who would normally get a letter to the editor or two are now pseudo-journalists (posing as rampant whingers). I'm still the 9th result for "Andrew Higgs" on Google (just below a newspaper, and for Gary Anderton, I'm fourth for Gary Anderton - just after his Wikipedia entry. Journos use Google, everyone does. Blogs are hardly a source you'd want to depend on when attempting to prove something, but they are remarkably reliable.

9-Do you think that the blogosphere is a stand alone community separated from the real world?

Yeah. It's a niche, circle-jerk e-community like any other (much like forums, but with the individual given greater weight - we are all Kings and Queens of our own little segment of blog land), and I don't imagine it's likely to change much, ever. Joe Citizen (I was going to say Joe Bloggs, but yknow, irony) is not going to read blogs, he's not interested in what your cat did today or what your opinion of the midterm elections is.

10-Do some political blogs scare you? Do you avoid them?

No, but I do find some frustrating/distressing. I wouldn't say I avoid them, I like to be aware of the contents of the sorts of political blogs that upset me - I guess I'm hopeful that one day they'll provide some justification for their position that makes sense. But they never do.

11-Do you think that criticizing your blog is useful?

It depends. If it's useful criticism, yes (ie: I can't read this on Firefox, you are wrong on this issue for the following reason), if it's wasteful pointless criticism, no (ie: you sux, I dispute your position without any justification for doing so).

12-Have you ever thought about what would happen to your blog in case you died?

No. I don't think it's important enough to be concerned with, blogs stop all the time, people stop reading, then forget about them.

13-Which blogger had the greatest impression on you?

He who we dare not name. (I imagine most people will know who that is.)

14-Which blogger do you think is the most similar to you?

Absolutely no one. My work is extraordinarily and uniquely juvenile and amateurish.

(Yeah, I called it 'work', deal with it.)

15-Name a song you want to listen to?

Where the hell did this question slump in from? Talk about tacking something onto the end to make a not-especially-round number… I want to listen to Ani DeFranco Swing, the album version. Just because it rocks.

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