Answers, on a Postcard…
Posted by zeno on August 4, 2009
I like to write, most of you know that. I also like to be read but, I have a question, where should I take the blog?
It’s been a couple of years since I was regularly posting but some of you will remember (fondly I hope) the days when fasteddiesbullet and the dubious institute kept abreast (fnar) of the times, the culture and the zeitgeist. Then I ran out of words.
Others who started around the same time just kept on going, producing better and better stuff, but I faded. Millions of new bloggers began to fill the webosphere with words and pictures, thoughts and opinions, smut and saintliness. Blogs specialised and focused, became commercial and attended to the neeeds of the most jaded of reading palates (yes, mixed metaphor, I know… but it’s what I do, right?).
Which leads me to here and now. Where do I go and what do I do on this little piece of internet real estate? Should I try and focus on more thoughtful pieces which drag on a bit but get to the heart of the matter (at least in my eyes) or should I go back to my original recipe of a scattergun of brilliantly coloured, but ultimately shallow, notion-posts, interspersed with the occasional picture of my arse?
What do you think people, poetically purple prose or fnar jokes aplenty?
I leave it in your gentle and tastleful hands. Make your thoughts known, suggest a topic or two, send pictures of your own bahookie (mine is aging, after all), write me a poem.
Answers please.
Croila said,
Sorry, no bahoochie pictures – wait till I figure out how to use the self-timer on the camera!
But, interesting post. I could/should have written something similar myself, except I hardly ever write these days. (I blame the immediacy and instant gratification of Facebook actually.)
I would rather you post like you used to – all sorts of random but interesting pish, occasionally interspersed with something more thoughtful.
Bring the Bullet I say
Ringleman said,
Been thinking the same. About to delete my facebook account and Twitter does not do it for me. I,m about to go more thoughtful. Perhaps a merged bloggers blog with different contributors! Dunno, struggling with my own shallowness vs the inability for others to be open.
zeno said,
but you are good on Twitter. anyway, I think my problem is discipline and hunger for interaction. Twitter feeds one side and the other… well. You keep writing, whatever you do.
lucy said,
To be or not to be, that is the question…
I’d go for pithy and shallow, but I’m that type of girl.
Amber said,
Your original recipe of a scattergun of brilliantly coloured, but ultimately shallow, notion-posts, interspersed with the occasional picture of my arse works for me.
Amber said,
How the heck do I get rid of that picture?!!! *ScREAm*
Katherine said,
‘I would rather you post like you used to – all sorts of random but interesting pish, occasionally interspersed with something more thoughtful.’
Seconded.
Hula Doula said,
I have done the same ting. Now that I own a business, my time has been spent breathing life into the business. (I know, starting a business in this economic craziness is nutty but I’m that kind of gal)The business has flourished now and I have been contempating the whole question as well.
I rather enjoy your topics and writing. I loved how you use to write.
Ultimately it is your call. Do with it what you wish. Just do something because we are part of the original crowd that started a few years ago. There are few of us left!
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