In the IRC chat today, my friend Lestat mysteriously wrote: “you are a blogging maniac.”
Odd, but curious, thing to type. ‘Maniac’ isn’t usually an endearing term but with slang who knows? So I questioned him:
“Blogging maniac? Is that good or bad?”
“I dunno. You blog a lot. [winking smiley]”
Wasn’t going to let him go there. “Ok … I blog a lot. Are you saying that’s good or bad? [winking smiley]”
“Mmmm neither,” He typed back. “I guess you have a lot to say [winking smiley].”
This is my love/hate relationship with IRC. Takes awhile to get somewhere.
Lestat continued, “Most your entries aren’t crap like a lot of these on the referral engines. Most of the referral engines blogs are crap.”
“Now are you just saying that as a friend (to be nice) or do you mean that?”
“I mean it. Your writing skills are helpful, that you have a lot to say, and can say it well too.”
I thanked him for his kind words and added: “I think it is important to subscribe to the music you like. Literally it works. The more you listen, the more it can rub off, but at the same time it is important to develop your own voice.”
“Da.” He replied cryptically. What does da mean, I wondered, but let that go by and then he vented about how he disliked music playing autoplay onload on some blogs. You see that mistake made on some blogs, mostly people who haven’t learned this is anti-surfer behavior.
My comment: “I’ve yet to meet even one person that likes music playing onload in their browser.”
“It’s like walking into a department store that unexpectantly plays heavy metal.” Lestat replied.
I feel the conversation being lost to bad netiquette, which ironically is a great parallel because to be an interesting writer passion about something is important. I can trace just about every boring blog entry to a lack of passion. If the writer is going through the motions — and we’ve all been there — it is blatantly transparent.
“Writing is watching, reading, listening, evaluating and then purging, ” I write, “It’s like the process an anorexic goes through but without the dry heaves.”
Lestat keeps ranting about music auto playing onload. People really hate that. Ahh, the passion is so clear. Capture it, I think, capture it!
“But I want to listen to it when I want to listen to it.” Lestat writes, “Not when people decide to subject me to it.”
“Ahh, now you’ve hit on a great part of why RSS and blogging have become so popular.”

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