I have a friend - let’s call him Brian - that doesn’t really see the point of all this blogging business. It’s apparently just a bunch a whining computer users who talk about what they had for breakfast and what they thought about that TV show they watched. Essentially, stuff that nobody cares about.
I’ll grant him that to a certain extent, he’s right. There are a lot of people out there with nothing better to say than “Ate oatmeal. Saw Orlando Bloom on Conan. Squeee.” Every so often I find myself reading one of these sites and wonder what toilet my life has begun to circle. This is not to say that what you’re writing isn’t important to you, just that I need to see some credentials before I think what you say has any importance to me whatsoever. Which brings me to my point…
I’ve visited a few web sites recently that I’ve never been to before (I do this pretty regularly, actually) and I found myself thinking, “Why do I care what you think?” Who the heck are you?
I was thinking of concocting a format for a quick intro web page. Something that lets you convey who you are within a business-card-sized chunk of layout space. Would this be effective? I would wonder what to say, really. Hmm…
There should be a way to automatically generate this profile. Perhaps there is a way to combine a few of the tools out there to produce such output. It could tell political leanings, TV watching and reading habits, hobbies, interconnection with the rest of the blog world, and other stuff like that. It would be something neat to keep in the sidebar while browsing from site to site so you would have some background on the author while reading.
I wonder how my own posts would skew. I need to start tossing in random nonsense, like how I’d really like a Red Robin hamburger right now.
