Operation Shock and Awe…
As you may have noticed the web ring logo on the right side-bar for the “Anti-Housewife Mafia“. This collection of fine and tasteful blogs is sure to keep you mesmerized while you work your 9 to 5 job in that 4X4 cubicle. So please check out the other blogs in the ring as well.
Also, just as an addendum, I’m not some freak who thinks housewives shouldn’t be blogging just because they’re boring (although that’s part of it). The real reason I don’t like the typical “look at how hard it is to raise my kids” blog is that it has ZERO to offer anyone. Those type of blogs are the equivalent of daytime television. A bunch of fluff that only serves to make people think they’re more important than they are.
Sound a little harsh? Well it is. There’s a reason we have brains, so we can use them. Retelling your daily activities in an online journal isn’t using your brain. Expressing ideas, proving points, providing commentary; that’s using your brain a bit. Not that my version of that short list is anything extraordinary, but I do know that I’ve gleaned a lot from one quote I actually read on a teacher’s poster:
Great people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Small people talk about other people. –Unknown
That really says it all right there. And its not like anyone has to be a genius to be a ‘great’ person, but you do have to have your priorities straight.
The original idea of blogs was really an online journal, a true web log…so many people still use blogs as diaries - although it gives outsiders a sneak peak.
I think that’s the draw to blogs, the chance to see the dirt or life experiences of other people.
ME, on the otherhand, wanted to use a blog as medium to begin writing again. I used to write all the time. With my blog, it gives me a chance to be creative again.
I want to entertain and inform, but I didn’t want to just stick a bunch of links. “Hey, this is funny check this out at http://///“
Not much creativity goes into that either.
Your blog is great, and I will have to create a link on my site as well.
Good point phoenix. I may be in the minority or even wrong on this, but it just seems to me that what makes the human race so great is the ability to pass knowledge and ideas on to future generations.
If that wasn’t possible, then we really would just be animals. So that’s why I feel its important for human beings to explore ideas (whatever form that may take), instead of just talking about things or people.
I know a personal ‘web journal’ is a release for some people, and that’s perfectly fine. But it’s my personal opinion that those same people would find it much more of a ‘release’ if they wrote about ideas and how their lives have affected those ideas, instead of just recounting the day’s events in a slightly cute manner.
Just my $.015
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