{"id":232,"date":"2007-01-16T21:27:13","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T02:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/wordpress\/?p=232"},"modified":"2021-01-17T18:23:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T17:23:16","slug":"i-dont-like-blog-memes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2007\/01\/16\/i-dont-like-blog-memes\/","title":{"rendered":"I don&rsquo;t like blog memes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nHow to know an interesting blog from a superficial one\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRule #1: if the blogger posts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webraw.com\/quixtar\/archives\/2006\/01\/blogging_101_the_blog_meme.php\">blog memes<\/a>, which are basically a blog version of chain mail, it&rsquo;s a superficial blog. When a blogger takes a break from whatever they normally post about just to gigglingly follow the latest, coolest meme about something completely inane, such as &ldquo;5 things you didn&rsquo;t know about me&rdquo; or &ldquo;13 strange things I own&rdquo; etc etc, I drop it from my list of blogs. It tells me that the blogger is more concerned with what other bloggers think about them than with their topic. I don&rsquo;t want to read an overgrown teenager&rsquo;s scrapbook; I want content.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOf course, a blog that specialised in memes would be a different thing. Same for a blog specialising in daily revealing new strange things about the writer. Basically, a good blogger is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2006\/07\/25\/favourite-tech-blog\/\">consistent<\/a>: decides what s\/he wants to write about, and then sticks to that.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd again I have to admit I don&rsquo;t do that myself, but on the other hand I don&rsquo;t write for my readers. (Sorry.) I mostly write for myself. This post is a case in point; this whole meme thing has been irritating me for a while and I just wanted to get it off my mind. So there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to know an interesting blog from a superficial one Rule #1: if the blogger posts blog memes, which are basically a blog version of chain mail, it&rsquo;s a superficial blog. When a blogger takes a break from whatever they normally post about just to gigglingly follow the latest, coolest meme about something completely inane, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14184,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/14184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}