How to Be a Blogger and Write Blogs People Love Reading When They Read Blogs (Which is Often)
I keep reading things about how to BLOG best but it seems to me that SOME PEOPLE are ignorant about how to BLOG "well" much less "best." For EXAMPLE no one ever writes about the ADVANTAGES OF MAKING YOUR BLOG LOOK LIKE IT WAS (and IS) the product of an unhinged mind.
Do PEOPLE not recognize the ADVANTAGES of
Random blockquoting or
- UnNECESSARY bullets
- and "outlines" that would shock YOUR high school English teacher?
THEY do not.
They THINK this sort of formating ENHANCES their arguments. It DOES not.
I call it: "Frustration Blogged as Performance Art."
Posted by: SEK | Tuesday, 23 October 2007 at 07:10 PM
The miniscule type on the final "not" is a lovely touch, too. Just a soupcon of ambiguity to rev up the commenters....
Posted by: Ahistoricality | Tuesday, 23 October 2007 at 08:00 PM
I'm not sure whether to feel robbed-by or blessed-for RSS aggregators which ignore formatting instructions.
Posted by: todd. | Tuesday, 23 October 2007 at 08:04 PM
I APPROVE!!!
Posted by: TOLAXOR | Tuesday, 23 October 2007 at 09:27 PM
Of the unhinged, are the blogs great; knows who next what say will they?
Posted by: eb | Wednesday, 24 October 2007 at 01:00 AM
Oh, I see. You did the cover of that OJ book "small(if) I did it." Good work. Hope you got paid.
Posted by: OhIsee | Wednesday, 24 October 2007 at 04:23 AM
Google Reader kept the font sizes, but missed out on the nifty overlapping effect that makes it look like half the words are marching off the screen towards you. Like the blink command, only without the seizures!
Posted by: September Blue | Wednesday, 24 October 2007 at 06:40 AM
...Beautiful.
Posted by: jake | Wednesday, 24 October 2007 at 09:30 AM
Sadly, Doctorow's sparingly formatted excerpt is more readable than the original.
And um, isn't his headline in the active voice?
Posted by: Mikey in Plano | Wednesday, 24 October 2007 at 11:20 AM
The University of California Library System is a member in good standing of the Association of American Libraries and Secret Criminal Societies. We run numbers, prostitution and complex overdue book scams.
One of our big new rackets involves unusual typography. We "loan" out James Joyce and similar volumes in disorienting typesets which cannot possibly be read by the due date. Then we "collect" our book and a little "interest." You know, just enough to get our beak wet.
P.S., Scott, The Library System has a policy of property ownership not exactly unlike that of a toddler. If we have it, it is ours. If we see it, it is ours. If it is yours, it is ours.
P.P.S. You can find an AALSCS-approved video version of disorienting typography right meow. Just don't try to horn in on our racket. Capish?
Posted by: The Library | Wednesday, 24 October 2007 at 12:07 PM
scott,
sorry i never got back to your first email..as is apt to happen when things get critical, my computer died.
in any case, glad to see you're back around campus here and there. sucks about the payment situation though.
sparked up an interesting conversation with some lj101 classmates, and they said that you had gotten hit by a car? wth dude!
well, if you're on campus any time during the week, i'd love to drop by and say wat's up.
later.
raychongchen
Posted by: ray chong chen | Wednesday, 24 October 2007 at 03:23 PM
Unhinged eh? www.timecube.com
Posted by: D | Friday, 26 October 2007 at 01:20 PM