3,2,1 countdown until people email me saying 'MY BLOG IS NOT LIKE THAT!'
Matt was telling me the other day that he thought about Danielly's blog as 'Raymi's blog but without nudity'. I disagreed. I thought about it and came to this conclusion :
(warning: yes, put me on a wooden cross and let me die slowly while I beg for forgiveness, I am creating categories ONCE AGAIN ohmoomg!, but they are useful so as to understand blogs and their nature...I think my inbox will implode with hateful emails as a result of me posting this thread...)
[note: this goes for personal and not community edited blogs only]
- The are blogs which don't have anything of importance to say, most of the time being of the 'today I ate an apple' category, but they do it with a vision, or a concept, and become Art, or at least part of a certain arty blog trend. They create a specific 'universe', with a scene, their actors, good punch lines... it feels like an endless move script.
Examples:
Raymi. Her boyfriend Phil. Emo kids cry.
- Those who both join a concept, a vision, and relevant things to say (they are hard to find).
Examples:
Tony.
- Those which are absolutely non-coherent and eclectic, but expose opinions, ideas and sometimes personal stories and/or commentariat. Often written by extremely opinionated, political, fierce, loud mouth people 'in real life'.
Examples:
Mine (edit: ?) . Zen for Lunch. Electrolicious. Verstehen. Heather Corinna.
- Those focused on specific topics, like music, politics, or technology, and which rarely let personal/biographical details show, but still enough so as to keep the reader interested in their online persona.
Examples:
Aphophenia. Vanmega. Bitch PhD.
- Those blalantly personal, and which read like personal diaries. Sometimes hard to get if the writer is often making in-jokes are refers to people who never heard of if you don't know them personally.
Examples:
Matt. Marnsickle. Geoffrey. Smelly Danielly.
- Those exceptionally well written, and which don't make sense right away- probably because they're so well written that it comes as a shock in the blogosphere and you find yourself going like 'whaaa? It's actually demanding to read it!'. These blogs are sometimes written by what society currently refers to as 'profesionnal writers'. I can spot them from MILES, and yes I AM NOT FOOLED! You often wonder 'why are they on the blogosphere?', but it often makes sense when knowing their personal history.
Examples:
The Pill Box. My Husband (oops) . Marcello Carlin.


