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posted by
adventurer02
on October 27, 2015 at 2:53 AM
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more trendy in the tea room than IT start up these days
Fashion and buzz words come and goes but blogging for me is something I hope to be part of for the long haul as it is helping me to develop the discipline I need to write consistently and improve the quality and level of output of my work
posted by
MsVision
on August 24, 2005 at 8:34 PM
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tigerprincess
Rarely does the subject of blogging come up for me, but if it does , people are interested and want to read my blogs. I suppose it would help if I told them my pen name or it was Blogit I blogged on. Ah Well, such is life.
posted by
johnmacnab
on August 23, 2005 at 8:38 AM
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I agree, people are intrigued with the idea of blogging, unless they blog as well. I was, too. Tossed around the idea of creating a blog for months before I finally started blogging here, now I MUST blog! I will tell people where I blog, but not my pen name! 
~Mama.Dragonfly487
posted by
Mama.Dragonfly
on August 23, 2005 at 8:15 AM
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wordsmith
My husband actually has read my blogs and encourages me to do it. I guess blogging is to me what "fantasy sports" is to him
posted by
tigerprincess
on August 22, 2005 at 1:35 PM
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Timmytales
"Deer in the headlights" is how I'd describe it to when I tried to explain it to my now former boss, who thought he was such a writer...
posted by
tigerprincess
on August 22, 2005 at 1:33 PM
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I've never used the work 'blog' to any person I know.
They'd think I was crazy to be putting my thought on the net where the world and his wife can see 'em.
posted by
word.smith
on August 20, 2005 at 7:32 AM
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Tiger
That's so funny that you should write about this........I was trying to explain it to a co worker today and he had the "deer in the headlights" look
posted by
TIMMYTALES
on August 19, 2005 at 7:40 PM
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Hemlocker
Actually I haven't seen where it's really affected my writing. If anything it's gotten me to write more often, and better.
posted by
tigerprincess
on August 19, 2005 at 7:32 PM
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blackcat 30
I'm kind of like that too where I'm hesitant to let people like my husband read what I write. the other night I left a manuscript on the computer, and almost had a heart attack when my husband found it because it was based on an experience I had with a guy I dated and it involved mountains and was kind of mushy, and not the kind of thing I really want him reading about.
posted by
tigerprincess
on August 19, 2005 at 7:30 PM
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MayB
It is kind of fun to explain blogging to people who don't know it. I see it as knowing about some awesome club and they just need to "get with the party".
posted by
tigerprincess
on August 19, 2005 at 7:26 PM
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Joe Love
That's becuase we're fascinating. My friend in Vegas thought it's the greatest thing in the world that I blog. I told her about Blogit but she just ignored it becuase I know what I'm talking about.
posted by
tigerprincess
on August 19, 2005 at 7:24 PM
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Meringue
Seeing as how blogging is becoming a big thing, I would definatley be wary on anyone in the "business" that has to ask what it is...
posted by
tigerprincess
on August 19, 2005 at 7:20 PM
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tigerprincess
To some it is a big deal; to others it is a silly obsession with sound and fury signifying nothing. For us, blogging is a double-edged sword. If we find ourselves at last, so immersed in blogging, other aspects of our lives may suffer, especially the stories, articles, novels and what have you, which must become specific projects we are dedicated to working on every day. Hemlocker
posted by
Hemlocker
on August 19, 2005 at 11:09 AM
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I don't tell anyone that I blog, because I know they'd want to read it!
But I've heard others say that they've started a blog and people find it so amusing. I just laugh to myself... if they only knew.
posted by
-blackcat
on August 19, 2005 at 8:25 AM
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I wait to get to know someone before I mention the b... word. It is fun explaining it to people who have no idea and sweeping them up with in the whole blogging story. Then I disappoint them because I never tell them where my blog is
posted by
Azur
on August 18, 2005 at 11:50 PM
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People who don't blog
DO find it quite fascinating. Who knows why. *grin*
posted by
Joe_Love
on August 18, 2005 at 10:31 PM
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yeah, it freaked me out when I went to a publishing house for an interview
and the chief editor said"Blogging?What is that?" I thought being in publishing she ought to know at least!
posted by
Meringue
on August 18, 2005 at 10:09 PM
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I don't really go advertising it either but every now and then it will come up.
posted by
tigerprincess
on August 18, 2005 at 9:06 PM
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I don't usually mention it to nonbloggers
because I usually get the "huh" reaction or "what is a "blogger"? I have tried explaining that it is a person that write's weblogs, but then you get those people that don't know what that is either. To most, blogging is another world unless you are a blogger, and that is just fine with me.
posted by
Sherri_G
on August 18, 2005 at 8:59 PM
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