BE

So I've been surfing BE for several days now. I found some enjoyable blogs to read. I found some terrifyingly ugly blogs, and I found some just plain weird blogs. I had listed my journal on the site, but I decided to delete the listing.

My journal is for a more intimate audience. If I gained some readers, great. If not, oh well. I also don't update my journal as often as I update my blog, so that was another reason to remove it.

As a reader, I don't want to be surfing BE and come across a blog that hasn't been updated for months. It would immediately go onto my block list. I like the idea of the block list--I can avoid those hideous blogs as I mentioned earlier. The problem is that you can only block 25 sites. After that, you have to remove one in order to add one. The maximum number of blocks is 25. :(

I think I talked about hideousness in a previous post. Please, bloggers, do not add every available link and blinkie just because you want to. I admit, I have a lot of links. I can't edit the blogroll coding, though, so I'm stuck with what it looks like. I try to keep my links as clean and neat as possible. That is one reason I made a drop-down list for the archives; the list was getting too long. It's still too long. Perhaps I should delete the ancient entries.

Some bloggers complain about the knitting blogs. Those definitely fit into a certain niche. I don't dislike them; in fact, I saw some very nicely designed knitting blogs. However, it would not be something I choose to read every day. If I were a knitter, I would probably like to read those blogs and have one of my own.

What I do like to read are blogs about people's lives, and what they think. I try to put that into my posts here, because that is what I like to read. I suppose it would be boring to read the same kinds of blogs all the time, but like attracts like.

(And now I will post this, because it's been a day in the making!)