I’ll start off with an explanation.
My umbrella isn’t really lost- in fact my umbrella is where it always has been, inside my messenger bag/man purse. The title of today’s post is from a post I read that questioned the purpose of Metroblogging. That post and the response from Metblogs, were key in helping me figure out my direction and goals for when I became City Captain over at DC Metblogs (if you are one of my many DC friends I highly recommend you add it to your reader, I’d love the support!) But alas this post isn’t about my shameless self-promotion.
In fact it’s about the promotion of my blog friends as well as another look at the question, “why do I blog?”
When I originally tackled the question back in 2006, my blog was really more of an online journal. A simple record of some thoughts but mostly recaps of my life since I started blogging. The archives on this blog go back to when I started college but I’ve been blogging since the beginning of high school. I’ve been a blogger before it was called blogging
In recent months my blog has gone through a puberty of sorts. While it isn’t developing new and exciting feelings towards female blogs and it’s not covered in acne, it has grown and matured in terms of the content I’ve written. I’m really happy that I feel like I’m starting to find a voice on this blog that has allowed me to express my feelings and thoughts and in turn hopefully provided more interesting reading for the two people that read my blog.
As a blogger I’ve also started to explore the blogosphere to find other voices I can read and react to. I have made an attempt to become a more active part of the community and I’ve really enjoyed some of the interesting people I’ve met and read about.
That being said I want to show some love to the blogs I enjoy reading and have a special place in my heart as well as my blogroll.
Katie over at Can I just say tagged me with the “Love Ya” award:
“These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award!”
To me this meme is more than a meme, it’s an opportunity to realize that I’m very lucky to have a few people that enjoy reading me and at the same time I want to show love to the people that I really enjoy reading as well:
- Anonymiss in DC
- Katie at Can I just say…
- Christina and her favorite things
- My sisters Diana & Kim
- Krissy at Enjoy Life & Prosper
- Gayle over at Everyday I Write The Book
- Kristen at Goodie Goodie Gumdrops
- Rachel at It’s The Little Things That Make Me Smile
- Sean at Life After The Farm
- LiLu at Live It, Love It
- My friend, The Lusty Reader
- Rachel at Plight Of The Pumpernickel
- Rachel, Rachel I’ve Been Thinking…
- Carolyn at Technologic Logic
- Meg aka Meggie Poo
- Christal at Noticed From Northwest
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Yay, thanks Pho! I can’t believe it was only last month I trekked over with chocolate cake so you could let me in on the secret languages of rick-rolling, URL, meme, and google reader…I had no idea what any of those meant! Thanks again!!!
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I hear you on blog transition. I had a livejournal for 3 years before I closed that down-and it was very much my “online journal” where i whined and complained and gloated etc.
TSL started different-very opinionated, writing about what interested me-rather than about me. Last year I promised to write a post for every day of the year (and I pretty much did) and it managed to stay fairly on point-the point being writing about what interested me with a few key reoccurring themes (LOST, the Bills, Comparative Americana, copyright and some other stuff).
This year the roll has been a bit slow-I haven’t wanted to write about many of those things-mostly because while I enjoy writing them, and others enjoy reading them, I think it was a bit of a puberty-and now I’m at a place where I want to refine it. I want TSL to be a bit more purposeful-less “A collection of things that interest me and why you might like them” and more of a destination. People should go to TSL for….something.
Not sure exactly what yet, but I do have some ideas. I’ve started second blog TSL/creative which is where my short stories etc. will go, and I do like being the “sports guy” at DC Met-but the main hub of my Internet presence is changing. Again.
And that’s cool too.
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Aw, shucks. *shuffles feet*
Thanks so much, darlin. You just made my day!
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thanks p!
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