it’s about time

Tag…

October 27th, 2006 by timelady

…I’m it!

Hmm, 4.45 am may be a foolish time to respond to a blog challenge, but what the hey:)

Bruce’s Rave and Rant: Tagged: Thursday Night Metablogging

1-Do you like the look and the contents of your blog?

Oh yes, I spent a lot of happy hours fuddering. I was actually sad when I finished the fudder. The redesign inspired my blogging.

2-Does your family know about your blog?

My kids who are old enough to be online do. My husband links to me. My family (who are adopted by choice:)) pretty well know. My father is terrified of computers. I don’t speak enough to my brother, sadly, for him to know, or care.

3-Can you tell your friends about your blog? Do you consider it a private thing?

Its in my email sig. Its an easy way to let them know updates to my world and thinkings when we are all busy.

4-Do you just read the blogs of those who comment on your blog? or you try to discover new blogs?

I am always looking for new blogs. I read all the commentors blogs - not that I get that many, I am low traffic:)

5-Did your blog positively affect (sic) your mind? Give an example.

Sure, its a room of one’s own. Read that, and understand.

6-What does the number of visitors to your blog mean? Do you use a traffic counter?

Don’t care. I actually write for ME, if anyone wants to read it, well, thats nice:)

7-Did you imagine how other bloggers look like?

Never cared what people looked like before the intarwebs, don’t care now. I care what they are INSIDE. I have found the more I like someone, the more attractive they are anyways:)

8-Do you think blogging has any real benefit?

Sure. Do you mean personally or in a broader, global sense?

Hmm, that was a copout, I will just assume you said yes.

I think globally speaking blogs have done a lot to focus the world’s attention to issues. In these days of concentrated media ownership and heavily spun stories, its important for independent voices. As ranting raving looney as the voices may get. Actually, the looney voices are spleens being safely vented. Or alerting us to how bad the looneys in our midst are.

I will not say whether I regard myself as a ranting looney;)

9-Do you think that the blogosphere is a stand alone community separated from the real world?

What is the real world? Everyone has a perspective on reality at anytime. My reality is totally different to, say, a woman in Rwanda. If there is no quantifiable definition of real world, how can that be answered effectively?

I DO think that there is a sense of community, but among like minded bloggers, just as you get those social dynamics in groups of peple in the flesh, so to speak.

10-Do some political blogs scare you? Do you avoid them?

Yes, I get scared. I get scared by the ignorance of people, and how they try to infect the world with their ignorance.

Don’t avoid darkness. Shine some light into it, hopefully!

11-Do you think that criticizing your blog is useful?

Of course. Insulting it isn’t, criticism, sure:)

12-Have you ever thought about what would happen to your blog in case you died?
The kids will have something to read of my thinking, a rare gift of an insight into their mother. Its an od inheritance.

13-Which blogger had the greatest impression on you?
Me.

14-Which blogger do you think is the most similar to you?

Oh help, that’s actually a tough one. Bruce, possibly, but he’s better at it?

15-Name a song you want to listen to?

So many I love, thats tough. Current mega faves, songs that lift and soothe and inspire:

• Shutup and kiss me, Paul McDermott/Fiona Horne
• Lift me up, Moby
• Strange litle girl, Tori Amos
• Anything at all by Sarah McLaughlin (Not one I don’t adore)
• Throw your arms around me, Hunters & Collectors (Also see Holy Grail)
• More, Sisters of Mercy
• Red rain, Peter Gabriel
• Love my way,Psychedelic Furs
• Running, Evermore
• Mad about you, Sting
• What a difference a day makes, Billie Holliday
• Woman’s world, Neneh Cherry

Look, this list is going to get insanely out of hand. Lets see, limiting to one, umm, probably my fave atm is Hurt, Johnny Cash.

Now, I Tag umm Katie and Shaun.

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