This will just be a brief post to grumble about blogs that I used to enjoy that have changed such that I no longer care about their content. This is probably going to sound whiny but it’s been bugging me for a while, so of course I’ve got to vent about it on my own blog. First off, there was Jem’s blog that I read for years. She’d gripe about stupid people she found online and their web site issues, and that was mainly what I subscribed for. Then she went and had a baby (congrats to her!) and I teased her about making a mommy blog, not ever thinking she’d actually go and do it. She apparently wants to have a mommy blog, though, and that’s cool, I respect that… But I don’t care to read it.
Melissa had stopped blogging for a while but, after having a child, got back in the scene. I was worried I wouldn’t be interested in what she has to say about motherhood because, damn, I’m a far way from wanting to have kids at all yet, but it’s nice to see that I do still enjoy her posts. I haven’t seen the girl IRL in several years and it’s nice to keep up with what’s going on in her life, even if she’s in a stage beyond mine.
When everyone around me (Facebook, blogs I read) seemed to be going baby-crazy, I considered Rose’s blog to be a bastion of what I find entertaining in blogs. She wrote funny, über-personal entries about her family dog, the assholes she has to deal with in retail, and her musings about the weird things in life. I just read an entry today though saying her blog will go in a more technical, professional direction, and this saddens me. I read Eric Lippert’s blog, Joel Spolsky’s blog, Ars Technica, and Stack Overflow for technical stuff. Rose’s blog was a break from all the geeky, technical things in my life, like a more personal Not Always Right-Reddit duo written by a single person. So hers is another blog from which I’ll probably unsubscribe. :(
As it stands, I read the blogs of a couple folks I know IRL, Melissa’s blog, and Leslie’s blog. I’m going to have to scrounge around some in people’s link lists to see what other blogs I might enjoy, because the ‘Personal’ folder in my Google Reader has slim pickings.
It’s hard! :-)
I love writing about me and my day and saying stupid shit, but when you have prospective employers standing in front of you and saying “The first thing I do when I get a new resume is google the person’s name.”
And then
“I have decided not to hire someone based on their facebook photos.”
It’s like… Oh. Okay. This stuff is serious.
On the other hand, I still do want to write personal stuff, so I’m going to try to find some way to do that, but who knows. We’ll see!
Thanks for the kind-of compliments. :-P
I know what you mean – but I’m pretty sure you can sign up at Rose’s blog if you wanna read her more personal entries.
You can read this; http://questionablecontent.net – I love it. :) Good luck finding any, if you do be sure to let me know. There’s only a few I really enjoy too.
@Rose: if you tell me that you found this blog entry just now by typing your name into Google, I will laugh. :) I understand not wanting to post some of the stuff you have before online since your real name is associated with your blog. I usually refrain from crazy-personal stuff too for that same reason. The problem is that I’ve gotten addicted to your personal stories, and you’re about to cut off my supply! It’s hard finding a blog like yours because I’m guessing most folks don’t want such intimate details associated with them. If you do end up switching to a personal-stuff-for-logged-in-users-only, that’s cool. I wonder if I’ll still be able to see such posts in Google Reader. I don’t know how that would work with an RSS feed; seems like only the public ones would show up.
@Surge: thanks for the link. It looks like a web comic, though; I’ll dig around and see if I find a blog on there.
It’s funny to read a blog post like this- so many people have no interest in ‘personal blogs’. I read a few of the blogs mentioned, even through the changes, and understand but don’t 100% agree. I guess I read blogs frequently for the writer’s style and voice rather than what they’re saying exactly. Jem’s a pretty good mommy blogger, and while I’m not really ‘into’ ‘attachment parenting’ (I go for more ‘do what feels right’ parenting) I enjoy her posts about it, since they’re usually very Jem-ish. And after a bit, when the baby’s not literally attached ’round the clock I figure she’ll find a strong balance.
As for Rose, I’ll likely register and go to her site to read the more personal entries when her feed otherwise updates and reminds me to.
I’m more concerned by the fact that they blog so rarely. I enjoy their voices so much!
I KNEW you were going to mention me when I first started reading this!
I was just thinking the other day about the direction my blog has been going in. I guess it never really had a purpose other than a place for me to talk about what goes on in my life. Naturally, the posts have changed to baby-related stuff and I don’t really know how I feel about that. I wish I had other things to write about, but when some little person takes over every minute of your day and night, it’s hard to have anything else to write about! I don’t have a life outside of the baby anymore and I kind of miss that. I wish I could write about other things, but there are no other things to write about! I guess I could write about how we might be moving to California or Oregon in the near future, but that’d be boring :D
@Melissa: it would not be! How is there a debate between California and Oregon, for example? Freaking California would be toasty and with beaches! Oregon would be cold… and with beaches!
There is no debate! It just depends on where Ryan would be based if he gets the job he’s going to be interviewing for next month.
Plus, I already live in a place that is cold and with beaches and I don’t mind it :D
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