On LiveJournaling
Jun. 23rd, 2008 11:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cdaveOne of the things I remember from school English lessons, is write to your audience. Tailor the tone, content, and level of assumed background knowledge accordingly. The problem is, I don't have an audience in mind for this blog, so I don't really think I've found my "voice".
Primarily, I'm not writing it for myself. I've never kept a diary. While I would like to have some sort of a record to look back on what I've been up to in the past, left to myself I'd just take loads of photos.
So therefore I must be writing this in the hope that someone out there reads it. That's certainly true for the linkdumps I post. These roughly translate as "something interesting I saw". But those are probably the least interesting entries.
I guess it's a case of "Mokney see, monkey do". I enjoy reading blogs, end up thinking I could do that.
I was going to say that not many of my friends blog, but that's not true. In the circles I move in, there are few bloggers in each. But I couldn't name linkback to most people I hang out with. Certainly a lot of them don't read this. So I'm not really writing this for my them. At the same time I'm not exactly focused on writing this to appeal to a mass-market.
Part of it's probably a reaction to the way I read webcomics. I see a link, or a comment, I sometimes click on it, and read back a couple of entries. If I like what I see, I add it to my trawl. I hope that others do the same, like what they see here, and stay. Obviously other people don't feel the same, since there are a few people with f-locked only posts.
I f-lock as little as possible (since at least three people who read this without livejournal), but since I don't usually write in any detail about myself, this isn't a problem.
In conclusion: I'm not really sure what the purpose of this is, or who I'm doing it for.
So what should I write next?
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Primarily, I'm not writing it for myself. I've never kept a diary. While I would like to have some sort of a record to look back on what I've been up to in the past, left to myself I'd just take loads of photos.
So therefore I must be writing this in the hope that someone out there reads it. That's certainly true for the linkdumps I post. These roughly translate as "something interesting I saw". But those are probably the least interesting entries.
I guess it's a case of "Mokney see, monkey do". I enjoy reading blogs, end up thinking I could do that.
I was going to say that not many of my friends blog, but that's not true. In the circles I move in, there are few bloggers in each. But I couldn't name linkback to most people I hang out with. Certainly a lot of them don't read this. So I'm not really writing this for my them. At the same time I'm not exactly focused on writing this to appeal to a mass-market.
Part of it's probably a reaction to the way I read webcomics. I see a link, or a comment, I sometimes click on it, and read back a couple of entries. If I like what I see, I add it to my trawl. I hope that others do the same, like what they see here, and stay. Obviously other people don't feel the same, since there are a few people with f-locked only posts.
I f-lock as little as possible (since at least three people who read this without livejournal), but since I don't usually write in any detail about myself, this isn't a problem.
In conclusion: I'm not really sure what the purpose of this is, or who I'm doing it for.
So what should I write next?
- An alcohol themed linkdump.
- An entry describing the pseudo science on one of the lines in this comic, and why it may make sense
- Another introspective entry titled: "My entire moral foundation is based on vague memories of Saved by the Bell".
- The first entry of my live blogging Dr No.
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- A review of Lord of the Rings the musical.
