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Blogging As A Form Of Therapy
wellington writes "According to an AOL survey, blogs are more likely to deal with personal matters than politics or current events, and nearly 50% of bloggers see the activity as a form of therapy."
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Tue, Sept 20, 2005
Urge to kill growing.
Must paint town red with blood.
Sun is rising.
Hear birds singing.
Looking nice outside.
Ahh. just what I needed!
What a great day, better go to work!
Wed, Sept 21, 2005
Meter reader coming today.
Sweet flesh in my slow cooker.
Bread in breadmaker smells good.
Too good to taint with meter reader.
Mmm. Maybe I'll go to the store for some blueberry jam.
And a nice walk through the park while I'm at it!
What an awesome day!
Thur, Sept 22, 2005
They have no idea I'm watching them.
They're nothing more than scum to me.
To be decimated like germs.
Hrm.. hey Slashdot's new CSS looks nice!
Wait... argh! Still buggy!
Can't they do anything right?!
Must.. not.. hehe heh ehhhhhhh...
Today is the day I unleash my wrath
and appease my Dark Master...
Trolling is a art,
When he wrote this:
a nish
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=b
Argh.
Nearly 50% of the blogs in existence are not interesting for an overwhelming majority of people is what i read from this. Thats not to say that all the non-personal blogs aren't just as bad. As Leo Laporte talked about on TWiT this week, Blogging is quickly becoming a serious problem with Google, and all the other search engines. Search just about any news topic, and you might find yourself with a blog talking about it, the source of material from said blog is another blog, and the chain will continue until you get to one of a few websites. I think that Google might be going in the right direction with their blog search, if they can use it to eliminate all blogging sites from searches which do not wish to return results from blogs. This must happen for search engines to be as easy and timeless as they have been in the past unless the novelty of blogging wears off, but who knows when that will happen.
There was a chart on the office wall about 25 years ago which went:
Project Life Cycle
I used to think it was funny, but years of work in various shops have taught me this is the grim truth. In effect the steps can be found within Microsoft, the first two where during the heady successes of the early days of gobbling up easily taken markets. Step 3 are the growing pains of trying to forge headway into existing markets against established competitors also the rapid pace of virii and worms stripping the veneer of the solid image projected to businesses. Step 4 is where the management and employees don't see the problems with the same eyes. Step 5 is the big JARBO reorg over Vista rollout problems. Steps 6 and 7 are Microsoft hunting down their own unhappy employees and sacking them for the failures of management. Step 8 is when complete outsiders from General Mills, Glaxo, Smith & Wesson and Toro come in and head up departments, over experienced insiders.
I don't work for Microsoft. BTW I don't work for Microsoft.. Uh, Steve, unhand my ch
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A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
You mean to tell me the teen girl world doesn't revolve around politics or current events? Inconceivable!
I read lots of blogs, and as I read them I often think to myself:
1) Thank goodness my life is interesting and does not revolve around my cat (I like cats as much as the next man, but I don't replace the human beings in my life with fuzzballs).
2) Thank goodness I am no longer a hormone crazed teenager who is in love one moment and ready to commit suicide at the next (ah, those were the good old days...).
3) Thank goodness I have something better to do than cook up conspiracy theories all day long (if I read one more UFO blog or another blogger claiming to be a "Spook, I'll go balistic).
4) Thank goodness I have an occupation (while there are professional bloggers, those that post nothing more than rants about the bad employment market and whine about it all day long rather than look for work are not among them).
So... yeah. Blogs are theraputic. Often times, they can make me feel so much better about myself.
(the above is sarcasm and, obviously, doesn't refer to all blogs... so let's dispense with the flaming)
However, out of the clear blue, my Crohn's Disease came back from out of nowhere and I went from a leisurely vacation to a 5 day hospital stay complete with heavy helpings of shots, IVs and a naso-gastro tube up my nose and into my stomach.
Feeling miserable, I started up a blog just to chronicle all of this and joke around about some of these truly awful things that were happening to me. As it turns out, it's the most efficient way to share what's going on with the people who care about what's going on and I don't have to write/tell the same stories over and over again.
As it's taken a life of it's own, I've found that it's not only helping my friends and family understand what's going on, it's helping me work through everything as well.
And as for whether or not you agree or disagree with this, it really doesn't matter. A personal blog/site is just that...personal. No one asks anyone else to read these types of things unless the author is going out and setting up Adsense accounts and creating Technorati profiles. Furthermore, it is the individual's choice to read something or not...