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Blog Time!

If you ever have any newspaper writing classes you learn not to lead with a question. Doing so will only frustrate the reader. They want to read the news and want it straight to the point. Luckily this is blogging, so conventions can be thrown out of the window. If you ask me a question, I might just answer you. So go on and ask those questions!

Now on to the good stuff...

So what is blogging all about anyway?

Wait a minute. Did you want me to answer that? I was hoping you could tell me. Whatever. I'll give it a shot.

Blogging is all about communication. Being able to address your individual or collective concerns in a simple online-journal kind of way. Sure everyone can read it, but it's really there to keep the writer satisfied more than anyone else.

Can other people find the writer's thoughts interesting, informal or downright amusing? Sure. But I bet you all the money in my account that the writer will have more people disagree with them than agree. It doesn't matter, the writer is writing it for him or herself and no one else.

In my case, I am being marked on this very post (thankfully not the content, just the fact that it is here). Before I can sign off I need to refer to one other Blog that spiked my interest. Even though I am not one to judge (because I am a journalist and need to be objective) I took a few minutes of my busy *cough* schedule to skim through a bunch of blogs set up on Blogger.com. I was quite bored during this process, paying attention more to the music in the background while I clicked away. Countless clicks later, passing by various pages of useless information, broken links, pornography and journals of high school girls bitching about their boyfriends, I came across The Hoss Report.

The Hoss Report is a small and simple blog. Sure it isn't updated every day, but that’s what I like about it. The journals come far enough between, so if someone stumbles onto it (like I) then they can read it and get some humour out of it. It’s a perfect example of the personal satisfaction I was leaning on before. The writer(s) update it when they see fit and write about what they want. Now that's effective blogging. The "no one cares but me" attitude is what it's all about. The latest entry speaks about how there is always that one co-worker that smells like fish. Well I have worked with many people and many have smelled like fish, so I can relate. So can many others. But, like I said, there are probably more people that have no idea what this writer is talking about.

Just like this very entry on ciuffinicrap. If you don't get it, forget it.

posted by Ciuffini @ 3:20 PM