Thursday, December 14, 2006

Blogging about Blogs

So blogging is huge. Maybe not all the time at this particular site (shared ownership=lessened culpability of not posting), but huge enough that UCB extension is offering classes on culture and technology of blogging.
Would you pay $625 for a one-day seminar on blogging fundamentals? Would the people who could afford to pay 625 on a blogging workshop rather than learn online even be the people that eventually blog? Blogging seems to take committment and dedication and time and curiousity. A certain scrappiness and self-starter quality in the person that drives them to post for all to see. There is no quick fix to being a blog master. Blog masters were born to be blog masters, in my opinion. Some people live and breathe their blogs. Like the guy they wrote an article about in the NY Times who has to keep up-to-date on all business related to TV News while going to college and if he doesn't post every half-hour or so, people call him on his cell phone. Or those Project Runway bloggers who have become best friends with all the former contestants. They found an opening and capitalized. Bloggers link and write and create worlds---if we were all so noble. I don't think you can buy that quality. at least not in a day.
Maybe if I knew more about blogs I could get Sarah's picture off the side bar and replace it with a photoshop'd version of all of us together. But then I'd have to learn more about photoshop.

2 comments:

Erica said...

Speaking of which, right now under Contributors it only says Sarah and Julia B. What the f0)*((?

Sarah said...

What about my picture on the sidebar? See, google took over blogger and made this new kind of beta blogger which you have to be invited to use... a la gmail circa 2003... anyway, you get invited when you log into post. And then you'll go back under contributors, I believe. The blog knows and punishes those who don't contribute, I think. I don't mean you, Erica.