blogs in general: ok, so we have a topic - good idea. first off, i'd
like to point out my favorite blog, bitch. it is fantastic and great and sexy and fab. go visit
it. ok, now that that's over with, i'd like to mention a really interesting
and different blog: confessions of a wannabe actor.
it's about her personal life, but it's not one of those diary blogs that
reads like this:
"karen got her nose pierced today, it's soooo freaking gross! shara
redesigned! go shara!"
posted by tina : link
as opposed to this, confessions is very interesting and well written. it is
also a beautifully designed page, which i like. but it's not just design with no content, which is in my opinion important.
it focuses on a small bit of her life, and she is a good writer. she writes
about her experiences with auditions, plays, and similar stuff. she was just
casted into an indie film (go melanie!), and is now exploring that. i think
it's really cool and there's nothing really quite like it on the rest of
blogger.
now to be controversial and lose my limited permalinks and name a blog i
dislike: /usr/bin/girl. it's not that it's an awful site, it looks
nice enough, it's just...dull. i always avoid it, yet it seems to be quite
popular. is it just because bloggers in general are extremely unoriginal,
and this girl posts alot of links, so they go steal them from her? i
mean, i've noticed that sort of thing alot - it's true, blogger allows the
world's least original obnoxious bints to post anything they want, and
expect people to read it, and generally if they aren't posting what i said
above about shara's redesign, they're stealing links they read somewhere
else and posting them. i suppose this site bugs the hell out of me because
all it is is links. there is very limited commentary. i don't
personally go to blogs for links - maybe you do, i don't know. i go for
commentary, opinions, reviews, design ideas. links i can find anywhere. i
want ideas, i want to know people.
that, incidentally, is the reason i unlinked steal this blog! for a few
weeks. it seemed like liz smith had taken over this page for awhile - i was
extremely glad to see the recent return of reviews (outkast, erykah badu,
etc), and just wanted to say that publically. you can always find links; in
fact, hate to say it but the ones on this page weren't even obscure! but
ideas are unique and i like those much better.
