where do you blog? [specify blog host]
My blog host is blogdrive. I'm trying to blog in friendster, but somehow I have trouble posting, so I
post in my blogdrive account. I tried blogspot once, but blogdrive seems more suitable.
why did you choose that host?
It gives a little flexibility for my blogging needs. I know a little HTML coding, so I really value that
allowance. In xanga, for example, you can just link to people who have xanga accounts. In blogdrive, I can put in a little bit extra of almost anything I want there.
how often do you blog?
Every time I can and when I'm online --- that's almost everyday.
when did you start blogging?
It says in my blog the first post was May 2004, so I'm relatively new.
how did you find out about blogging?
I think I saw one of my orgmate's friendster post about blogging. And so I checked it out and lo and
behold I was hooked! Well actually, it started out as somewhere where I can recover some of my writings, but I got hooked anyway, so yeah, smooth as.
what makes blogging different from a written journal?
Of course blogging is a form of written journal. The difference is that anyone with a computer and search capability can find out what you posted about. So it's not as private as you'd like. That's why I usually don't post about anything I consider private business. For all my blogging, I'm still a very private person.
Another difference with the written journal is you have the extra advantage afforded by technology. For example, we can't print every one of our pictures as much as we'd want to, but with blogs, you can take snapshots from your digital camera and you can easily upload them. Blogging is also instant publication of your thoughts, so while it may pose a problem about accuracy in reporting events, blogging just gives us a widespread burst of personal expression.
Blogging is multi-media, hence you have a wider spectrum of your senses fulfilled. Thus you have the written text enhanced by images and sound.
what time do you blog and why?
Usually at night. Self-explanatory, I suppose, so won't elaborate why.
how many blogmates do you have?
Wouldn't know. I have people who are just bloghopping occasionally.
whose blogs do you visit everytime you are online?
Besides mine, blogs of people like Mong, Vida, and all those I have links with. I also blog-hop. I also like Noam Chomsky's blog site.
name the top 5 blogs you've read and what makes them
so different if not special?
Can't say, it depends what posts are there, but I read my posts a couple of times. It's different, eh, so for example you want to read funny posts, you can check out Teacher Kai's. If you want thorough analysis of events in the Philippines, you can check out Danny Arao's or Luis Teodoro's, as well as the website bulatlat.com. If you want cultural criticism, you can check out Mykel Andrada's blog. If you want to know about the policies of the US empire, you can check out
Chomsky's.
what topics, subjects, issues do you like to blog
about?
Some of my thoughts and experiences. I also post on different issues coz not many people do so. I mean these are the things that affect the world, and a simple look at them could be a catalyst for changing them. I don't see much point, though, in talking about marginal stuff the mainstream media talk about, or that advertisers spend millions to popularize, but sometimes there are convergences. I try not to anyway.
When I say marginal I mean those they try to distract us with to skid questioning the system of things. So for example, Britney Spears' new boob job should be marginal to the issue of the WTO's effect on Philippine Agriculture. There's just such an asymmetry on what people get to talk about and the events that affect their social dispositions, but these are nevertheless things they can change if the conduits for information would just focus on them.
So one more candle in the darkness I hope inspires others to see the need for more light.
which site[s] do you consider most helpful to
bloggers?
Hmmm, in general I guess the blog host FAQ's and features.
aside from the tagboard, what other things does your
blog have? [e.g hit counter, horoscopes. Etc]
Oh, I have a "Picture of the Week," a slight blurb, changing text colours, "quote of the day," this
counter which features the flags of countries that visited my site, background and downloadable music, as well as my links.
what makes you read someone else's blog?
Hmmm, sometimes it's the topic, if it's political or something interesting. Sometimes it's the blogger, you know, coz you expect s/he writes really well.
Reading other people's blogs also enriches your view of them, you learn something new everyday, so right on, it's fun, even if u care nil about what they're talking about. It just widens your own horizon, I guess.
what do you do to attract other bloggers to read your
blog?
I suppose blog-hopping has that effect. But just posting what I like to post should be enough. It's not
like I blog to attract other bloggers. I want to contribute in the transformation of the world, so
blogging helps in that way.
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