Finding Our Voice
Blogs are all the latest craze now-a-days. From the magnitude of the craze, I would say they are here to stay. Just about as permanent at the Internet its self. All my life I never considered myself a writer of any sort. I can barely even spell WITH the help of a spell checker. Just IM me some time, you’ll see what I am talking about. I didn’t start posting here for people to come read some in-depth analysis on the current political issue or to stand on my own cyber soap-box. I really didn’t even expect anyone to see this besides me. I think it’s interesting though how many people feel the need to express them self on a blog. Take mySpace.com for example. Their goal was not to create a cyber community where prepubescent acne ridden boys and girls could try to woo the opposite sex. But now it’s all over the news. Or take Google’s Blogger. The tagline is “express your self online”. Just about everyone has a Google blog. For some reason though, people feel like they can express them self more openly when there is a chance that no one or everyone will read their thoughts. I don’t get it. I’d have to consult the psych major for that one. I have a co-worker who posts regularly about search marketing and technology in general. I have a brother in law who runs a conservative political website. I stopped counting friends and former co-workers with blogs a while ago because there are so many of them. My brother has jumped on the blogging bandwagon as well. I’m looking forward to implementing his site software here some day. I like to see how well people implement a design on their site though. I think you can accurately measure the intelligence of the site owner by the design. mySpace.com reminds me of the 1997 MLM world. I haven’t seen more basic design principles thrown to the wind since Jon built a family homepage for Tom Basset. That was on purpose though.
