Q without A
Well, the blogination thing is over, and it seems to have worked fairly well. Some new sites got fresh exposure, and some old sites were shaken up a bit. (I'm sure you all enjoyed MG's post here.) I admit that I'm not very happy with my own contribution, but I already knew that my style doesn't mesh very well with blogging. Sadly, Sara's readers were subjected to the empirical proof; I trust they will all recover.
This does raise an important question: what the hell am I doing, anyway? I'm clearly not blogging as the term is generally understood — writing short summaries of current news items pertaining to a specific topic or group of topics. But I'm writing for public consumption and posting things in reverse chronological order, so I'm living in the same neighborhood as blogging. Ah, well, I am that I am.
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When you figure out what you're doing, let me know what it's called. I'm playing pretty much the same game.
Who gets to declare a particular kind of writing "blogging" and dismiss all other kinds of writing posted on the internet? And who has to listen to that person anyway?
It's your webspace and your words. Call it George or Fred or Maxine and be done. Labels do not make a thing be or not be -- they just reduce the need for others to think.
If you're bored, you know where I'm Berting at.
To be clear, I'm not whining about the labels people might apply to me. I was more voicing my self-directed frustration with trying to squeeze Hidden City into a hole that is clearly not in my shape.
I was more voicing my self-directed frustration with trying to squeeze Hidden City into a hole that is clearly not in my shape.
So why try? People come and return to Hidden City for what it is: good, quality writing that comes from the heart. That's enough for me, at least.
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Rick is right. I caught myself "blogging" and couldn't take it. Keep on with the writing short summaries of news items... Good stuff, indeed.
I'm very much with Rick and MJ. Hidden City definitely qualifies as a Web log, any way you look at it. Plus, if we all wrote in the same format, it would be tedious reading, all around. I've been lurking (though not writing) in blog-land since 1995, and I'm terribly addicted to variety of formats. The common denominator among them is the quality of the writing.
Long live Hidden City. :-)
hidden city stands for quality. period.
I agree with Sherri. Write what you love and forget the label.
I keep reading because every post convinces me more and more that you're an incredible human being. And I want to know incredible human beings. That's all.
It works for me!
In a recent blind taste test, misunderesitimated interweb consumers chose Hidden City 2 to 1 over the next leading brand, Blog X.
"I can't believe it's not blogging!" exclaimed one surprised subject.
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