Randominity
- Ok, did I finally come up with a version of "random" that hasn't already been done?
- Why, oh why did I do NaBloPoMo? If I still have my other gig, please let me know that I am a complete idiot if I try again. And, although the Ning site was very cool with all the groups and networking and whatnot, I had no time to participate. Boo!
- Question of the Day: Why do some bloggers (i.e. the more well-known ones) treat links like they are some sort of golden coin to only be handed out once a year? I got to thinking about Dooce and how many damn people link to her, and does she even have a reciprocal blogroll? I mean, why do people link to someone who will never, ever link to them, and most certainly will never, ever read their blog? Is it like high school where people just want to associate themselves with the popular kids? And why are some of them so popular anyway? I happen to think a lot of them are not that great, and it isn't just sour grapes.
- All right, I am calm now.
- Never mind getting toys for Mr. P over here, for two days he has been enamored of a cardboard box a bit smaller than a shoebox. He has turned it into a "raisin/marble dispenser" whatever the hell that is, and has spent hours modifying it to his exact specifications. I think I've got an architect on my hands.
- And the boy? Apparently he can effortlessly throw spiral football passes. My dad, BIL, and Hubba-hubba are already planning his career in pro football.
- Finally, I am SO taking this weekend off, people.
- Why, oh why did I do NaBloPoMo? If I still have my other gig, please let me know that I am a complete idiot if I try again. And, although the Ning site was very cool with all the groups and networking and whatnot, I had no time to participate. Boo!
- Question of the Day: Why do some bloggers (i.e. the more well-known ones) treat links like they are some sort of golden coin to only be handed out once a year? I got to thinking about Dooce and how many damn people link to her, and does she even have a reciprocal blogroll? I mean, why do people link to someone who will never, ever link to them, and most certainly will never, ever read their blog? Is it like high school where people just want to associate themselves with the popular kids? And why are some of them so popular anyway? I happen to think a lot of them are not that great, and it isn't just sour grapes.
- All right, I am calm now.
- Never mind getting toys for Mr. P over here, for two days he has been enamored of a cardboard box a bit smaller than a shoebox. He has turned it into a "raisin/marble dispenser" whatever the hell that is, and has spent hours modifying it to his exact specifications. I think I've got an architect on my hands.
- And the boy? Apparently he can effortlessly throw spiral football passes. My dad, BIL, and Hubba-hubba are already planning his career in pro football.
- Finally, I am SO taking this weekend off, people.
Comments
- Are they there so people know who I read so we can possibly connect on that commonality?
- Are they there because I am a little star struck and it's the cool thing to do?
I keep up the blogroll to do a little advertising for the people's sites I enjoy or want to support, and to let those people know I support them.
So I guess my reason is.... YES, I want to look like one of the cool kids. Must you call out my low self-esteem so publicly?
Clearly I am thinking about the world of blogging too much right now and have been too engrossed by NaBloPoMo and need to go lay down.
Have a great weekend full of cardboard and perfectly thrown spirals!
But otherwise, I don't read the big timers, there's enough other reading material and I guess I haven't found a "popular" blogger who I find all that appealing anyway. I read Dooce a couple times too and I guess I just don't get it. Maybe I would be more impressed if I'd been reading when she used to be crazy or whatever the deal was.
I agree about Dooce though. I find her tiresome and full of herself. It irks me a bit that she had to make a big production of her re-design. I mean really, she went from small side bar ads to full on, in your face ads. Big deal. But that's how she makes her living now so she must be doing something right I suppose. Rant over.
By the way, don't take the whole weekend off...I finally wrote something that wasn't a caption to a picture!!
As for Dooce. I read her once. Didn't understand what the fuss was about. I prefer the real bloggers, the ones that you know read your comments and comment back. Like conversation, not a race to see who can comment first on a post. Blech.
Someone actually said to me today 'Don't become like Dooce' cause I *takes a bow* debuted in the top 200 Aussie blogs. I have read a lot of the bigger blogs in that list and they are all real people. That is what I want to read, real people.
Thus end the rant and I need to go to sleep. It is late here on the other side of the pond!
Kelley
http://magnetoboldtoo.wordpress.com
My blogroll was created once...and I've not been very good at keeping up with it. When I find someone I really like, I add them to my Google Reader, but I sometimes forget to add them to my bloglist.
The dropouts -- I often forget about them, and thus don't delete them. It's hard to keep track of those. I only really delete the ones that I at first enjoyed, and then come to realize don't quite mesh with me and my own idiosyncracies.
I don't really read any of the 'biggies' either. I read Dooce ones or twice, but she didn't *floor* me the way others have. Like yourself! :)
Have a GREAT weekend.
Heidi
I've posted before that I don't know how some bloggers pull in so many readers without expending any energy on communicating with them...never visiting or commenting on anyone else's site. I wonder if it isn't a strategic move to keep themselves scarce...like how Disney only lets certain movies be available during certain years...to keep the interest high. Hard to say. I'm new to the blog world.
Thanks for thirty days of wonderful posts. I so enjoy your blog.
I promise I am still planning on linking Teeny and blogrolling the site! Have a fun weekend off, you deserve it1
The rule? If I receive a second comment (or sometimes even one), you're there once I work up the ambition to do it.
Dooce was on my blogroll when I first started the blog along with a couple of other "famous" bloggers. No offense to her but I removed her. My blogroll is composed of my online friends.
Having said that, I'd better double check and make sure you're there (lol).
I do try to respond to comments and visit most of the blogs although sometimes I find myself behind once again. Like now.
As for Dooce, I go through spurts where I read her fairly regularly despite the fact that she's popular. It has nothing to do with wanting her or any of the popular kids to know that I link to her. I don't spend any time even thinking about whether others will think I 'm cool if I link to certain people. I don't need for anyone to think I'm cool. I think Heather has some writing skillz even thought I'm not always interested in (or don't always agree with) whatever it is she's writing about.
Concerning more important matters, whenever we get any cardboard box my kids will try to climb into it and sleep there. We've currently got a huge one stuffed with pillows in our family room after a run to the furniture store.
It's the little things...
Enjoy your R&R
My blogroll is for those people I read.. just cause i like em.. and its easier for me to link from my blog than to have them all in my favorites or something.. ehh Im just lazy...
I don't pay too much attention to reciprocal links. If someone links to me, great! If not, I'm not going to worry about it.
I used to try and comment on everyone's site who left a comment on mine, but that became very overwhelming. And then blogging wasn't fun anymore. I've found that letting commenting go by the wayside a bit has taken a huge pressure off blogging and it hasn't affected my readership at all.
Now, I write purely for the enjoyment of writing.