Andy Chase

There's an interesting piece titled Blah, Blah, Blah and Blog over at Wired news today. It's about the growing number of weblogs on the internet, and quotes a number of people who, for some reason or other, seem to be authorities on the notion of what makes a good blog and what doesn't.



Yes, I have done some thinking aloud on the subject myself, but I'd hardly compare that to the authoritative statements made by some folks in that article. Calling somebody a "Wanna-be" because of the way they write their blog strikes me as just a wee bit pretentious and elitist. (And there I go, meta-quoting some random web-person's quote. Now who's pretentious?)



Which isn't to say that there isn't a lot of bland or downright awful writing out there, or pages and pages devoted to personal interests that most of the rest of us might find dreadfully boring... but I always thought the attraction of keeping a blog was less about impressing the rest of the blog intelligentsia and more about writing about whatever it is that you enjoy writing about. Personally, I realize that most of my entries on this site are probably overlong and overly opinionated (especially my more colorful comments about Los Angeles), but when I started this site, my only reader was myself... and even though I now get about 50 search engine hits a day, I don't see why I should write any differently.