November 17, 2008

  • Worth Being Featured

    There is a blogring whose title is "Content WORTH being featured."

    This blogring has, as far as I can tell, blurry pictures of the cookies people baked and Proustian tales of their days with family members.  ("I woke up.  I brushed my teeth thinking of the great day to come.  Then we did this.  It was great.  Then we did this.  Then someone said . . . ")

    Now, I fully support your right to use your blog for whatever you want to post.  It's what makes blogging wonderful.  I do question, however, the universal interest factor of a discussion of how much cinnamon you put in this batch of cookies and what you did with the frosting, and how many leftovers you had and what kind of tupperware you like to put them in.  Don't get me wrong.  I like cookies.  I don't oppose domestic talk.  It's just, this is a little less "eye-opening mass entertainment" and a little more "I could get this by listening to old ladies talking in the supermarket."

    I don't ask for much, really.  I just think that if you're going to brag about how your entries are "WORTH being featured" you should try to put all your entries on a higher level.  I don't do so with all my entries, and therefore I don't claim any such thing - and the vast majority of my entries (99.75%) are not featured.  Imagine that on some random day John, Dan, or Natalia wander by your blog and see four pages of text about how cute your new dog is, or the random personality quirk that makes your daughter fidgety when you try to send her to bed, complete with detailed asides on genealogy ("I think it comes from Aunt Bea's side - you know that side of the family."  No, actually, I'm afraid I don't know, and neither will your readers if you get featured.) 

    Should this get you featured?  In your heart of hearts, can you honestly tell me that 5000 random strangers on the internet are all brimming with eagerness to hear about your mother's back pain or how your last batch of cookies went? 

    Yes, you say? 

    You must be one hell of a writer.

Comments (39)

  • I have been guilty of discussing such things in the supermarket, but I'M NOT OLD, DOGGONE IT!!!

  • Hah, encore. Nobody is worth being featured, I say!

  • They should refer to my post on how not to suck at Xanga; but then again, I suck too. Thanks for the post, someone had to say it.

  • God, so agreed.

  • touche.

  • lol. no i promise my blogs aren't worth being featured but some weird reason, I've had 2 featured blogs in the last 2 weeks and 3 blogs on the top blogs list. I think I just got lucky. i don't claim to be good enough to be featured or on top blogs. lol... i know i'm just not that great!

  • haha. I am in that blogring! This makes me laugh. I joined it because it was really more of a creative writing blogring. The fearless leader sent out topics twice a month to write on, and the members made the rounds reading and commenting. It was good for getting readership much like plugz is now. It was created when the featured content was solely based on the number of comments and Dan could take nine of the ten spots on the front page. I didn't even know people still checked out blogrings. I haven't looked at them in...who knows how long.

  • Have to agree with you, my friend. It would have to be one hell of a great cookie recipe to get featured, in my opinion.

  • completely agree!

  • @NikBv - 

    Especially your post,it was great!

  • Sometimes I post drivel,I do not expect it to be featured but I am in that blogring ... the shoe fits!

  • I'm with you on this one. Strangely enough, based on feedback from my subscribers and people who leave comments, I do think many of my blog entries are worth being features. Not all, but many. Still, I think it's a little egotistic to join a blog ring that states as much. Self-aggrandizement carries no real influence.

  • DAILY MONOTONY IS MY PASSION! This isn't JUST a blog...it's fantastic literature.

  • [thumbs up]

  • haha. Some people can make mundane subjects funny and relateable...but not many.

  • lol..I am in that blogring and do make a lot of what I call fluff pieces...but back in the day, that was the blogring to be in.

  • or like, you have really good self-esteem. ::shrug::

    I don't really care if I'm featured or not. I just don't want to keep wasting paper and no one really has the patience to listen to my ramblings.

  • Wanders and sees, haha. Brain fart!

    @NikBv - I must be a nobody. =P

  • I usually ignore 99.75% of what's featured. *yaaaawn*

  • I disagree on the grounds that  right balance of cinnamon to sugar  on a cookie could be life altering and the more people know, the better the world-outside-of-the-internet will be!

  • I never got that either! And that's why I don't belong to that blog ring. Thank you for saying it!

  • I find that kind of content absolutely unneccessary for anyone to read, especially if it's a blog about your day. Who would honestly [in their right mind] be interested, especially if it would [most likely] be of no use to them?

  • Hmm, so that's the secret to getting featured eh? Guess I'll have to get crackin' and write an entry on how I started the day watching the news and there was this report about fidgety dogs and... (several hours later) and then I went to Mori's blog and was like, "OMG look at this awesome post"... (several more hours later) AND I HATE HARD PILLOWS... (several weeks later) And in conclusion, the meaning of life is: 42. Thanks for reading everyone, I will now shut down my site because I have covered all there is in the universe. XD

  • i suppose it must depend on how lovingly photographed and delicious teh cookies are ;)

  • ryc: Took me a good 15 minutes of googling and reading to find out what you meant by a "shaping attack." Heh. I _think_ I understand it now. Basically a story comes to life, eh? ^^

    Bar too high, I'm afraid.

  • i'm pretty sure that most of those people, in their minds eye, live "the good life."

    let me be the first will balls enough to say that i have horrible urges to comment on their blogs, stating "tl;dr;dctr."

  • well, i'm only a junior so i've got some time to worry about applying to schools. i've yet to even take either the ACT or the SAT for the first time, so i can't really go about applying to schools without having those scores (or at least, i'm unaware if i can do that). i'm going to be taking both tests for the first time after winter break.

    yeh...i hate math. it's not all that difficult, it's just so boring. i wasn't planning on taking it next year, because we don't have to senior year, but i'm rethinking that simply because i don't want to have to be in some remedial math class in college.

  • Everyone should read this.

  • I like a little variety. I'm not one to say whether or not something should be featured unless its baseless and inflammatory.

  • Well hey, I can't write every entry like it's going to win the Xanga prize for literature can I?

  • This is freakin' wonderful.  I definitely agree. 

  • haha. this is good. worthy, itself, of being featured.

    i'm part of that blogring, but i don't write about pets, family, or cookies... i promise.

  • A few billion bad apples always spoils the infinite bunch, eh? True, true. But some of us "got the goods, know what I'm sayin'?"

    ∞

    P.S. — I'm a part of that blogring too. There can be only two reasons people join blogrings: "Hey, that's me!" or "Hey, I'll pretend that's me because it's the cool thing to do!"

  • Well my blogs tend to fluctuate from good featurable material to a diary of sorts, but hey if u dont like dont read, as far as blog rings go...I tried to start one and as of yet nobody has joined! Misty

  • i'm going to go join that blog now :)
    PUWAHAHAHAHA

  • Agreed.

  • i suppose if you were doing a recipe for cookies or sending out free cookies you should get featured

  • sorry... =( i'm part of that blogring. =( but i send my posts to blogrings unless i think they're worth sending.

  • I have long since given up taking blogring titles seriously. They rarely mean much anyway... i'm in that blogring though and I've met some pretty good writers through it. Of course, I'm sure everyone thinks their own writing is worth being featured. hehe

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