Livejournal vs 'real' blogging
2006-Mar-12, Sunday 19:41![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matgbYeah yeah, I know, "Mat's going off on one again". Well, sort of. Recent discussions, mostly via Livejournal, about the "snobby" attitude of some bloggers regarding Livejournal and similar, personal-style blogging sites got me thinking. Y'see, I'd been commenting on blogs all over the place for ages, with my livejournal id. But the day I set up a free blogspot blog, people started linking to there. Even when I was, until then, writing about politics and suchlike here.
Despite my interest in political blogs, the majority of blogspot, wordpress.com, typepad and similar blogs are personal blogs, in a very similar vein to your avarage livejournal. For example, Everything is Electric is a fun personal blog by a London based lawyer, and Girl with a one tracked mind is very similar to some of the journals I've come across in my wonders. She's an award nominated "sex blog", yet an LJ isn't a "proper" blog. So, I have an idea. I dislike the owners of Livejournal, and I dislike certain aspects of the fans of Livejournal (the "Brad can do no wrong", attitude that you find in comments to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
news posts, etc ). But I do love the community overall, and LJ is a great way to keep in touch with friends, and even make new ones.
Which brings me to this weeks Britblog roundup. I try to nominate something good every week, and have on occasions nominated LJ posts (typically by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jonnynexus but sometimes by others). Most of my nominations have been included thus far. Tim takes nomination by email (britblog AT gmail DOT com) and is looking for anything that's well written and interesting, regardless of topic, as long as it's about Britain, by a Brit or by someone in Britain. That includes posts made on LiveJournal or even (shudder) MySpace. Most of us read non-real-life-friends journals, right? If someone, anyone, makes a public post that's interesting, amusing and well written, nominate it.
It won't, by itself, dispell the anti-LJ snobbery amongst "real" bloggers, but it may help. Besides which, it's fun. Tim's book 2005 Blogged may get a follow up for 2006. Wouldn't it be cool to see something you nominated get into print?
Despite my interest in political blogs, the majority of blogspot, wordpress.com, typepad and similar blogs are personal blogs, in a very similar vein to your avarage livejournal. For example, Everything is Electric is a fun personal blog by a London based lawyer, and Girl with a one tracked mind is very similar to some of the journals I've come across in my wonders. She's an award nominated "sex blog", yet an LJ isn't a "proper" blog. So, I have an idea. I dislike the owners of Livejournal, and I dislike certain aspects of the fans of Livejournal (the "Brad can do no wrong", attitude that you find in comments to
news posts, etc ). But I do love the community overall, and LJ is a great way to keep in touch with friends, and even make new ones.Which brings me to this weeks Britblog roundup. I try to nominate something good every week, and have on occasions nominated LJ posts (typically by
jonnynexus but sometimes by others). Most of my nominations have been included thus far. Tim takes nomination by email (britblog AT gmail DOT com) and is looking for anything that's well written and interesting, regardless of topic, as long as it's about Britain, by a Brit or by someone in Britain. That includes posts made on LiveJournal or even (shudder) MySpace. Most of us read non-real-life-friends journals, right? If someone, anyone, makes a public post that's interesting, amusing and well written, nominate it.It won't, by itself, dispell the anti-LJ snobbery amongst "real" bloggers, but it may help. Besides which, it's fun. Tim's book 2005 Blogged may get a follow up for 2006. Wouldn't it be cool to see something you nominated get into print?
