Tom C wrote:
I confess having some difficulty with blogs.
I wasn't going to say it, but since you broached it. I don't really
want to do all the reading that a blog presumes I do, and I don't like
clicking on the inevitable thumbnail in the blog to get to the larger
version of an image. I find most blogs present even the thumbnail in
such an unappealing manner that I'm not inclined to click. On a
photography list I'm going to the blog to see the photo not read about
it.
And finally maybe, somewhat rudely, but not intended so, I find a blog
a bit akin to watching someone's home movies. They tend to mean much
more to the creator than to the audience, and so come across, to me at
least, as somewhat mundane. My own blog of course would be very
interesting and compelling.
I much prefer a single link to an image, or a gallery of thumbnails,
as opposed to an image thumbnail surrounded by a lot of text.
Blogs and The List are different entities, and have different aims. On
the rare occasion I write something for my real blog, it's pointed to
wider audience than a bunch of photography enthusiasts, and unless I
have specific photography-related information/opinion in the post, I
don't mention it here.
That I have a few crossover readers is bonus for me the blog writer, but
that's not why I started writing a blog. I can tell you that it's damn
hard to keep a blog going, especially if you want to keep it interesting
and compelling.
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