{"id":592,"date":"2008-10-01T04:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=592"},"modified":"2008-10-01T04:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T04:40:00","slug":"how-do-you-chose-blogs-to-followread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"How do you chose blogs to follow\/read?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I always find it interesting to discover why people choose the blogs they follow and\/or read regularly. \u00c2\u00a0In my case, I have three general criteria, the order of which is subject to mood and whim. \u00c2\u00a0I suspect that others have very different criteria.<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n
One of my criteria is humor (even unintentional). \u00c2\u00a0I am a big fan of those who can poke fun at their day to day lives and the oddities of modern life. \u00c2\u00a0Given that I have a writing style that is stiff, formal, and pedantic – you might say I enjoy reading the opposite of what I write. {*grin*}<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Another criteria is decent writing skills. \u00c2\u00a0By that I mean that sentences are well formed, nouns are used appropriately, and verbs exist. \u00c2\u00a0I am old enough not to enjoy blogs written in the style of texts<\/span> or matchbook stenography school adds. I.e., if u cn<\/span> rd ths<\/span>, u cn<\/span> mk<\/span> $<\/span>.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Yet another criteria is true geekiness<\/span> or nerdiness<\/span>. \u00c2\u00a0Given I have spent most of my \u00c2\u00a0adult career involved with science, technology and software development, I have a deep fondness for most things geek. \u00c2\u00a0I am not, however, a big fan of “gadget of the day” blogs. \u00c2\u00a0I have entirely too many gadgets already. \u00c2\u00a0I would like to see the development of a master gadget – one the size of a modern cell phone with a pop-out full size keyboard, an IMAX<\/span> sized holographic screen, the computing power of a supercomputer, and 3 days of battery life. \u00c2\u00a0Oh, and it should weigh little and cost less. Got one for me? {*grin*}<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
A final criteria is regularity. \u00c2\u00a0I like a blog to have at least a couple of entries per week. \u00c2\u00a0Otherwise I tend to loose my understanding of the style and skills of the author. \u00c2\u00a0That continuity is critical for my enjoyment of most blogs, since they build on a sense of history and shared disclosure of experience.<\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n
I have been reading and following blogs since they first came of age, but until this beast<\/span> have resisted the temptation to have a public non-technical blog. \u00c2\u00a0Now you get to suffer for my lack of will power! \u00c2\u00a0The list of blogs I follow and\/or read is constantly changing. \u00c2\u00a0When I find a blog that I like, I usually then investigate the blogs the author follows. \u00c2\u00a0My investigation is somewhat trivial, consisting of reading the last three posts and then making a yea or nay decision to follow or add to my reader list. \u00c2\u00a0Any time the posts from any blog seem to be less interesting over a week or so, it then gets pruned from my reading list.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
How do you chose the blogs you follow\/read?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I always find it interesting to discover why people choose the blogs they follow and\/or read regularly. \u00c2\u00a0In my case, I have three general criteria, the order of which is subject to mood and whim. \u00c2\u00a0I suspect that others have very different criteria. One of my criteria is humor (even unintentional). \u00c2\u00a0I am a big … Continue reading How do you chose blogs to follow\/read?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}