Blogs

Yikes. I stumbled on my first porn blog this morning. Was going through my Bloglines feeds and opening lots of tabs in Firefox, following links from various blogs. Clicked on a tab, and lo and behold, waaaay too much pictorial information at 6am for this Little Black Duck! Because this is a family friendly blog, I am not going to link to it. Besides, I am still trying to get over the shock. And no, I am not a prude, it was just totally unexpected, and if I am going to see sexually explicit stuff, I like to expect to see it, not have it just appear in my face.

The funny thing is, I had been thinking about blogs and how much you can learn about other people, other countries, religions, political persuasions, professions, etc., from reading them. I think there’s a blog for everything – as this morning’s porno blog proves. I like the technology blogs as much as I like some personal blogs. I am continually amazed by the really really good writing you can find on people’s blogs too. I love reading about families I am unlikely to ever meet, and about people going through horrible times, and surviving. With the bombings in London two weeks ago, blogs were a really important source of information and reassurance for me. And as a librarian, other librarians‘ blogs have become a really useful source of information about The Profession and all the issues that we get into and which plague us.

When I started this blog, I thought it was going to be a shortlived exercise, like all my previous blogs. I was going to just experiment with all the blogging tools that are out there and Technorati and del.icio.us and so on. Who knew I was going to enjoy writing so much?

In my last post I mentioned that people seem to always mention blogs when they talk about RSS. Seeing as my last post was about RSS, this is my blog post.

Categories: blogging, blogs