I have just learned while visiting the Soggy Pigeon, that there are five types of blogs....
1. The WBC Blog
These blogs are the Whine-Bitch-Complain blogs. They are a source of outgoing steam or stress, and provide a substantial amount of relief for the writers...
2. The Zine Blog
These kinds of blogs attempt to create diversity in their subject content. They may be witty, sarcastic, mockingly ridiculous, or scathingly cynical in their writing....
3. The Personal Blog
Like its name suggests, this blog has a few readers limited to their close friends or family only, or would preferrably not have readers at all....
4. The Non-Serious Blog
These blogs belong to those who have trouble commiting themselves to blogging. They may write about a few, trivial matters, or their posting frequency may be sporadic, or they may be both....
5. The Linking Blog
The writers of these blogs are more avid readers than they are writers. They'll find an abundant amount of intriguing, upsetting, or humorous links on the web, and cannot wait to share it with others....
I guess, by this criteria, that The Cheese Stands Alone fits nicely into category 2, with certains aspects of category 3, drifting at times into category 1, with spontaneous category 5 outbursts after a short period of category 4 behaviour.
Or is it the other way round?
Go read the whole thing, it's here.
I guess mine's all 5 categories, plus at least a 6th they haven't mentioned. Perhaps I ought to switch to whining so I'll fit in their categories better.
Posted by: Michael at June 3, 2004 07:44 AMi comment freelyquintly on a sensuous blog, which type di'n't get a mention at all. well i guess no one wants to talk about it.
Posted by: bob at June 3, 2004 08:46 AMFirst time visit. Nice blog. I noticed you're in SD. Any good cheese stores here? I haven't found one yet.
Posted by: Scott at June 3, 2004 01:40 PMChalk me up as a category 5 who's trying to break the mold into category 2. Actually I'm just wanting to do that to become more like the cheese... yeah... but not in the creepy stalking kinda way.
And what ever happened to the category "Blog set up distictly to rubbish *insert political party here*?
I spose what I actually want to say is this. Stalkers are ok...
Posted by: xade at June 3, 2004 05:01 PMThere's always someone -- who wants to put things into neat little pigeonholes.
If I had to throw out a guess, I'm a little of all of them, but mostly #4. But for the original author, I have four questions:
Yeah?
And?
So?
What?
Posted by: Emma at June 3, 2004 08:56 PMCheese Blogs?
Posted by: Robert at June 4, 2004 08:52 AMYes, what the world needs now is more Cheese Blogs. I have half a mind to write this guy and force him to post a correction to add a sixth category.
Posted by: Scooterdeb at June 5, 2004 07:21 AM