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Hmmm… I’ve signed up to Blogsnob. They put little text-based ads for other blogs on my front page, and in return then place little ads about my site on other peoples’ pages around the world.
It’s interesting to see what comes up every time I reload the page, as every member gets to write their own ad. Mine says ‘Journalist, talk show host … cat lover’. About three in a hundred displays of that results in a hit on my site. It’s about the same percentage as the number of people that surf away from my site on someone else’s ad.
It’s got me wondering what blogging is all about, though. It seems for most people it’s actually about ranting. ‘Personal rants of…’ or ‘The rants and raves of an angry…’ or ‘My life and other rants by…’ seem to be how a lot of the ads begin.
Are people really interested in getting home from work (or sitting at) work and reading someone banging on about what’s annoyed them over the last twenty four hours?
Why, oh why, oh…
oh… bugger! Now I’m doing it!
‘Twas a slow day.
Woke up to the strains of ‘A Little Mouse with Clogs On’ (’clip-clippety-clop on the stair’) and it went downhill from there.
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One Response to “Blogsnob”
>>Are people really interested in getting home from work (or sitting at) work and reading someone banging on about what’s annoyed them over the last twenty four hours?
Yes, that’s exactly what they’re doing. It’s strangely addictive. I don’t quite remember how I got to your site, but I keep coming back to see what’s happened. You don’t discuss world events make provocative statements (as some blogs do), but it’s still somehow compelling. It’s a bit like slipping into somebody else’s bedroom and reading their diary. In fact, it’s a lot like that.
• Posted at 11:53 am on September 18th, 2002 by Kevin.