Yes!
I’ve actually come up with a purpose for this blog. Things that cheer you up. Or cheer me up, anyway. Up until now it’s sort of been about that anyway, what with the Ball of Trumpets, Marzipus (which I STILL haven’t eaten), and my Lame Observational Humour. I won’t actually be doing much of that I don’t think, because of my increasing awareness of how unfunny I am. The illustration was ace though!
So, things to cheer you up. I will start shortly. Yay.
I love you. Bye.
I’ve set the blog to tweet my posts. It’s all looking terribly intentful (possibly not a word), all this. I’ve also got a widget that shows my latest tweets on the right. So when I post this, it’ll create a social networking black hole as my blog reports my tweet about my blog reporting my tweets, and I tweet my blog about my blog tweeting my blogs.
I wonder if other people are experiencing a new phenomenon that has come about for me from extensive use of an RSS feed reader.
I keep finding things I’ve subscribed to, and I have no idea what they are. I try reading some old posts from it, or going to the blog’s website, but I find no clues as to why I have added this blog. They have nothing to indicate even what the blog’s about*.
The more irritating ones are where the name of the blog or the person’s writing style seems to ring a bell, but I still can’t place them.
If a blog has an “about me” page, it will usually not give you any clues. It won’t say “you probably have this blog in your feed reader because I did a post three months ago about kittens and the whole internet saw it. I haven’t done anything remotely as good since”.
Blogrolls can be a clue, if you find they have some of your friends listed. A list of the sites that you might mutually visit would be more useful though. You can usually tell if they are just people you have met who’ve said “hey I have a blog”, because they are writing about going to the shopping centre with some girl called Judith, and how Mike never called them and they are feeling a little bit “blah” today.
It’s the ones that look like they might actually be interesting if you only knew what the hell they were talking about that are the most frustrating. I’ve started just unsubscribing blogs just through annoyance, then I always have the momentary doubt that I am missing something really amazing in that blog. You can’t always go by the recent posts. It may look dull right now but maybe every now and then they come out with something golden, and you’re going to miss it by unsubscribing…gah.
I wouldn’t go back for the world though, I love RSS. I wish more sites had it, just as a way of getting people back when something new is added. I have tried and failed to keep track of things using bookmarks. Although thinking about it, I did used to have exactly the same problem with those… “What the hell did I bookmark that for??”
*of course a lot of blogs aren’t about anything really. Much like this one. 
