Is it just me, or is anyone else finding an increasing amount of spam that masquerades as bounced e-mail? Highly irritating.

To all you Firefly fans out there: If you haven't heard Michelle Dockrey's wonderful "Mal's Song," do check out this fan video which uses her song as background music. Be warned that there are spoilers from the movie and tv show in the video. I believe that Tony Fabris is playing guitar in this version. For more info, see Michelle's LJ post on the subject. Michelle and Tony, by the way, are Guests of Honour at FilKONtario in 2008 (not next year, but the year after).

For those who didn't see an earlier entry, I've decided to move most of my writing-related posts into Inkygirl, which I'm updating more regularly. Blatherings is more of a catch-all in terms of subject matter.

Blogging seems to have only increased in popularity over the past year or two, despite predictions it was a passing fad. I'm sure the fad aspect is partly true, but right now it doesn't seem to show any signs of slowing down. But that led me to thinking: it seems like everyone and their dog has a blog these days...but are they being read?

I generally read three types of blogs:

(1) Friends' blogs: I catch up on my LJ Friends list infrequently, choosing instead to pick a particular person every so often and catch up with multiple posts at once. I count on my real friends NOT being offended if I'm not caught up with their blogs. I do the same in return. It drives me crazy when people say (in a hurt tone): "What do you mean, you didn't know XXX? I posted it in my blog!"

(2) Publishing news blogs: I browse publishing news blogs fairly regularly for Market Watch and Inkygirl research.

(3) Blogs I read for the writing: These might fit into the above categories, or not. These are blogs I read regularly because the posts are well-written and interesting; the writer could be posting about what she ate for breakfast and I'd still be avidly reading.

I've put together a survey using Wufoo, a survey manager that Jeff told me about. If you read ANY blogs, I would greatly HUGELY appreciate you taking the time to fill out this survey. I'll post results in an upcoming Blathering.

This is also a test of Wufoo, to see how accessible it is. If you have trouble accessing the form below, please do post in LJ instead. Thanks!

Permalink

Rice Bowl | Photogenic

Copyright © 2007 Debbie Ridpath Ohi. Base URL: http://www.blatherings.com
Many thanks to Samurai Consulting. Reproduction and/or distribution of the whole or any part in any form is forbidden unless prior permission has been granted.