To blog or not to blog
March 4, 2010
I’m genuinely unsure about blogging. Personal blogging, that is. (I don’t even like the word “blog” – it has to be one of the ugliest.) There are far too many blogs already, so ought I be adding to the mulch? As for the Shanghai “blogosphere” (brrr), it’s already full to brimming with “foodies” (another word I hate) waxing lyrical about their latest “foodgasm” (eugh) or complaining about bad service. Then there are the myriad China blogs, detailing with pungent naïveté all the culture shocks that assail the novice expat.
So what could I blog about? What am I interested in that might interest others? Here are some ideas:
1. Words and phrases I dislike. There are many. It could take a while.
2. Finding mistakes in books and magazines. Partly for my job, partly for (dis)pleasure.
3. Hamsters (of which I have an increasing number)
4. Strong pinko reactions to Daily Mail articles. I only visit the Daily Mail website for that warm-making liberal outrage that forces me to grab Web 2.0 by its horns and berate fellow commenters (and the “journalists”) for their narrow-mindedness. Ever so cathartic.
5. Maps of metro systems. I doubt this would be of much interest to anyone other than transport fans, but it can be fun.
6. Art Deco architecture.
7. Amateur dramatics.
So we’ll see. I have a crippling fear of web exhibitionism, which has led me to hide behind my other blog, Spam Stories, for a couple of years, but maybe it’s time to venture outside of anonymity.
