Monday, March 27, 2006
Meta-blogging :: Experiences far from feeds
No internet at home has radically changed my internet usage...and led me to consider how form inspires content, especially amongst bloggers and blog audiences.
At the end of each day I find a hotspot, run through my rss feeds, loading each new post into a tab in my web-broswer (firefox). I get home and, at some point in the evening or weekend, flick through the tabs reading posts and comments.
You know what I've realised? Most blogs are poorly written.
They're the English teacher's nightmare; the one-draft wonder. Even the blogs of professional writers and publishers often lack basic editing -- and I'm certainly no better. I've been wondering why I spend hours of my week reading bad writing.
You know what I have been doing? Re-reading posts
It's Sunday afternoon and nothing's changed...I haven't been able to refresh since Friday noon. Still I change between tabs looking for something fresh. I'm addicted to content, to ideas, to the act of scrolling.
You know what I miss? The ability to instantly comment.
This is the crux: blogging demands interaction. Comments are the primary separation between posts and articles. I've got some virtual stickie-notes on my screen. Each contains URL or two: a reminder to comment, to follow a link, to download a programme or pdf.
You know what the problem is? It just seems too late.
By the time Monday rolls around the conversation has moved on. A weekend of others' thinking, tapping and publishing will have left my thoughts high and dry...If I can remember them anyway.
And my own publishing? Well that's too late too. By the time you read this it'll have been a week since first drafted. "Blogging Craig's Mental Space"? An edited version, sure. Away from WIFI means less posts, less immediacy, less rubbish. Yes, one hopes the mind-to-web delay will lead to better constructed thoughts (and sentences).
3 Comments:
(I realise that I'm adding to the mass of nightmare engrish in the blogosphere. I think I'll stop commenting now :))
Culture (by geographic necessity) developed into sub-camps of opinion and would periodically throw a lifeless lump of text at each other from across the divide, to help them see the error of each others ways....
I’m hoping that conversation has it's revival, it's been to long since "come let us reason together" has been considered important in the macro and micro... but meh I rant =)
DR
