Recently at a seminar on the wonderful world of Web2.0, blogging was mentioned which caused me to experience a slight sensation of blog paranoia - was I blogging as much as other people and also, what should I be blogging about?
There has been some recent debate within Conchango about the relevancy of email content and whether this should be targeted or not to distinct groups of individuals within the company. Rather than open up that can of worms, I was wondering what makes a good blog? A few months back, rather than make copious amounts of pasta, a 70+ Italian grannie hit the headlines as the 'blogging grandmother', writing her own homespun views on life that other people, many millions in fact enjoyed reading, much to her own amusement.
Maybe the problem with blogging is that people tend to censor their own views based on a self-imposed assessment of whether a topic would be interesting or not and in the end don't write anything, unlike our mamma italia above. Maybe nowadays, sensationalism and celeb gossip is out and realism is in? Just look at ebay - what is garbage to someone can be a kitch, retro relic to another.
Now I'm not suggesting you can make silk out of a sow's ear because 'dull' will always be dull as far as postings go, but sometimes just a spark, a random thought even can make a posting into an enabler for wider debate or to prompt new ideas and ways of thinking.