Dilemma

anonymum — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 05:32:06 +0000

I’m big on food blogs.
Actually, that’s a lie. Or maybe more of a fib.
Huge is the word that should be used.
I have a folder just for food blogs in my reader, and there are {I kid you not} 547 of them I subscribe to.
Most of them post at least once a day, so that’s a lot of reading/trawling/perusing to be done on a daily basis.
For some time I’ve been toying with the idea of creating a sub folder off my URL just for recipes.
Every time I trawl for themes, I gaze longingly at those developed for recipe/food blogs and that sparks my interest again.
I know there are a million and one food blogs out there, yes, but I’m not scared to admit it.
I’m jealous of them.
Green with envy, dribbling, slobbering all over the keyboard, however you choose to phrase it, the bottom line is I’m jealous of them.
I want one!!!
Badly!
Then common sense kicks in.
Where would I find the time?
Can I keep up with another blog?
Is it simply that I’m addicted to new blogs and recipes is a convenient excuse?
You know what I mean, right?
So I find myself in unfamiliar territory.
Undecided.
Which isn’t like me, I know.
Every fibre of my being is screaming for a food blog, but my head won’t stop asking me those silly damned questions.
So, I’ve decided to throw it open to the floor.
What say you???

Looking to expand

anonymum — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:15:23 +0000

It’s rather obvious I have a small blogroll.
That’s always been my choice though, and I’m not complaining, but blogging seems to be almost seasonal is the thing.
There is a flurry of activity, then it settles into 5 parts of bugger all for a little while, then a flurry, then it settles, and so on and so forth.
The only small problem that creates for me is, I enjoy reading blogs.
I spend an enormous amount of time online between several blogs, FB, Twitter, all those things, and I enjoy the blogs I have on my roll, don’t get me wrong, but I was wondering if it’s time to expand my blogroll?
Many of the blogs I started with on my roll are now defunct.
They’ve either been deleted, the owner has maybe lost interest, or their lives have changed and they simply don’t have time anymore.
I’m quite picky when it comes to what I will and won’t read is one small problem.
I’m not into mummy blogs, not that there’s anything wrong with them, they’re just not my cup of tea is all, any more than political blogs are.
Watching paint dry is more likely to keep my attention than either of the above.
I prefer blogs to be a bit of a mixture, you know?
Some serious posts, some humor, a bit of satire now and then, and as you can well imagine, the odd spurt of cursing doesn’t bother me, nor does graphic content.
I love to laugh, and I don’t even mind being moved to tears, which is more than possible depending on the content.
So my question to you is, how do you decide which blogs you roll and which ones you don’t?
Many blogs have an established community happening, and it’s not easy sometimes, to integrate into that community.
There have been times when I’ve felt like an intruder to someone’s party.
You speak and there’s no response, you speak a little louder, still nothing, and by the 3rd time it happens, all you want to do is go home because you feel invisible {ignorant bastards that they are}
In my reader I have a “probation” folder.
I subscribe to a new blog, and if it keeps me interested, then I take more notice.
Those that can keep me interested for more than a month are the ones I refer to.
These have been few and far between is my dilemma.
So.
Do you have any recommendations?
Ideas?
Suggestions?
Anything?
Please know, because of the way I have my discussion settings, if you have a link I can look at, you may be better off using the contact form though.
I would hate to see you end up in the spam queue! {having said that, I am quite expert at slaying the spam dragon!!}
I’ll look at everything you suggest.
You guys probably know me better than most, so it only makes sense to ask the question.

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Dilemma

Looking to expand