the power of the blog
I think I’ve been underestimating the power of the blog. I just learned that you can make money through advertisements when blogging. I also heard about the blog “Stuff White People Like”
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/
and how it got him a book deal! Pretty impressive that someone just started with writing a few blurbs everyday and now has a book coming out with Random House Publishing. Although I read through some of the hundreds of comments that folks wrote about his blog and it was pretty disturbing to come across some horribly anti-semitic and racist comments. The blog itself is really funny and light hearted though.
I also came across a blog that I love called Measure for measure.
http://measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com/
This blog has some well-known songwriters talking about the songwriting process. It’s a great way to get into the heads of these creative people while they’re revising and reworking their pieces of music. In one entry, Andrew Bird writes about how he always leaves room for improvisation in his songs. Since he knows he’ll be performing the song for a few years after the album comes out, he doesn’t want to get bored. I hadn’t thought of this before, but it’s a really good point and something worth thinking about as a songwriter!
Susan said,
April 30, 2008 at 4:26 pm
I agree that it is easy to underestimate the power of a blog. You put your ideas down and then send them out into cyberspace and you wonder if anyone will care. Will someone be intrigued enough to stop by my blog and take a peek? It always amazes me when I do get a comment from a random passerby. How did they find me? I may never hear from them again, and yet, we have this connection in a single moment. Or sometimes I may read a blog that changes my whole day in the way that it stimulates my thinking or makes me laugh. And, yet, that author has no idea how they have changed me! Blogging is a fascinating phenomenon.