Once a month is unacceptable, isn't it? I blogged on my other blog last week, but seriously what's the point of having two blogs if you're not writing in them? Part of the point, I suppose, not to answer my own question in such a ridiculously defensive way that it makes me feel a little schizophrenic, is that each blog has it's own theme. This blog is for making (non)sense - clearly. This is where I get to explore and analyze and make connections and question assumptions and all that yummy stuff. And sometimes I talk about food or books or whatever I want because blogging is inherently self-centered and self-important, even as it is generous and generative, an inlet and an outlet. The other blog, the newer of the two, is focused on travel, on my travel experiences and on travel more generally. That doesn't mean, of course, that I can't talk about traveling in this space or that the other will not sometimes look like nonsense.
So all of this got me wondering about blogs about blogging, particularly how one would go about googling that, and it's surprisingly easy (Google is so smart). On a side note, there seem to be several definitions (or assumed definitions) of metablog, which should technically mean a blog about blogs, but that's not the entry at Wikipedia and it's certainly not how this guy is using it. But for pointing me here, where I just read this: "the nesting hormones are so strong right now that the adrenaline rush I got from organizing our toothbrushes was not unlike snorting an entire eight ball of cocaine," = fabulousness and he can toy with linguistics a little bit.
And apparently there is a list of the Top 25 Blogs about Blogging, which would seem a bit excessive if I didn't think it was absolutely fabulous that the blog about blogs lists blogs about blogs and is on its own list at #5. But it seems that most of these metablogs are really about marketing and what other blogs are posting (like a news feed) or about how to blog than what I was more interested in, which is of course theory... Wow, this is really bad poetry. This one is pretty interesting and informative. But what I was really looking for were more academically-minded blogs about blogging, but I'm suddenly wondering if that is too narrow of a topic. I don't think so, but I don't have time to keep doing research today. (How did my friend put it? We decided the internet was a great/terrible medium for my scatteredness. And that blogging about a single topic - travel - was good for my focus.) But an example would be this article here, which I will finish reading later because how productive is it to blog about blogs about blogging when there's more writing to do.
