While searching for blogs that I might possibly be interested in, I just continually found ones that I did not like. Some I actually found annoying- leaning towards being offensive. So until I find a blog that I really enjoy, I am left no other choice then to talk about that of which I did not like.
I am not a theologian nor am I a philosophical genius, but when I ran across this blog about Proud Atheists – I got a little laugh at how pathetic this blog is. Not to go off on a tangent but they themselves have created a place of fellowship- discussing and “disproving” religion- Sounds like a Virtual Church/Bible study to me! Unfortunately there was a picture of him and I was forced to picture him as a normal person instead of some devilish figure. I will be respectful of his beliefs or lack there of, but I will just say, “ Get a life buddy.”
When I did search- I found that I am particularly drawn to blogs whose designs are professional in overall appearance, and/or layout. Some blogs were invaded with hundreds of widgets suffocating the blog content and diverting my attention to too many places at once, instantly magnifying my ADD. In my opinion, this distracts the reader and puts them out of the “personal space” rather than inside.
Hope is not lost though – during the period of time that it has taken me to write this blog entry I have found a very interesting blog called NapkinDad. This blog is about an unemployed father who wrote insightful and loving messages on his daughter’s napkins (he calls it napkin art) inside her lunchbox everyday. His daughter had secretly kept all the napkins and gave them back to him for Father’s Day. This blog is basically all focused on image- Kind of like that Cheezeburger blog. These images, as well as the story and concept of the blog, have influenced me to have respect for this man.
4 comments:
I would have to agree with you in that professional looking blogs attract my attention. Anymore, however, templates and built-in features of blogging sites seem to allow even the biggest digital morons--such as myself--to create a cute or professional site. So I look more and more for creative features, as well--links such as audio and video, music--video blogs are kind of cool too, but I wouldn't say that they're necessarily true to the purpose of blogging...it's more of a youtube video diary...ish.
I checked out the aethesist's site...and its roughly as cool--not in layout, but in features--as OUR blogs. Tons of video, sparing text...it's pretty cool, as in comparison to my blog. =)
Proud Atheists may be pathetic in your eyes, but has generated over 123,300 hits since opening 4 months ago.
At least, I'm not so arrogant as to go around rating other blogs as if I were mine were "King of the hill".
How many times have you been featured in wired.com?
By the way, atheists are normal people.
I meant no disrespect- I understand that atheists are "normal" people - whatever that means now-a-days.
I don't go around rating other blogs for fun- it was an assignment.
I hope you find happiness... somewhere-