I was talking to Jay yesterday back and forth through email, and between bouts of hysteria after reading a few of his one liner zingers, I thought “I should blog this”. Well I have always been a day late and a dollar short when it comes to good ideas. Too bad, I'm blogging it anyway
Go over and tell him what you think the genre of your blog is and maybe we could come up with some fun categories.
Jay has aptly named our (as in he and I) genre as “Goofy Guys With Kids”.
We were discussing the popularity of some blogs and why their popularity has reached their levels. At this point he broke off into what I believe is a Hindu level of hierarchy in the world type analogy and I had one of my moments of the giggles. I had asked Jay why he felt Dooce was such a popular blog in the blogging community, I mean beside the fact she is an excellent writer and very talented. Then we discussed her style of not allowing comments on her site, and the fact that she rarely is seen visiting or commenting on other sites. I must confess I have no proof of this but she hasn’t visited my site nor left comment, which in itself is amazing self control.
Jay went on to say that he thought that she was the opposite of me, perhaps the Anti-Genuine. I hope what he meant was I read everyone’s blogs about 110 times a day and leave comments wherever I go. I guess he could have meant that I was just not very popular.
I think I’ll contact Dooce and ask her permission to use her name in a new tagline, something like:
“Genuine.........the Dichotomy of Dooce” or maybe the ever popular “Genuine.......the Antithesis of Dooce.”
Or how about "Genuine.....it may not be Dooce, but we're not afraid to name drop to get you here!"
Oh there are just so many possibilties!
I meant the former, ya big goof. :)
As for name-dropping. I'm the most shameless. I explicitly put "Dooce" in the title of a post so it would bump up my rankings in Google for the term. I'm such a search engine slut.
And yeah, the blog ranking system I sent you used the names of the four levels of the Hindu caste system (Shudras, Vaishyas, Ksatriyas, Brahmins). Seemed relevant somehow.
I've been trying to think of my genre ever since I read that post at Zero Boss this morning. You people are so demanding!! First Kym wants to know my blogging PURPOSE and Zoot wants to know HOW BLOGGING HAS CHANGED MY LIFE and now I have to come up with a genre??? Geez. It's like having extra kids, I tell ya.
"the anti-Genuine" bwahaha :) TOO funny. For an unpopular guy that is ;)
I'm with Mir on this.. still wondering what genre I belong too.
I was thinking on it, you can see my comment over there.... *Sigh* my purpose and how it's changed my life... those are whole blog in themselves... and I'm so busy with my other posts... grrr. ;)
btw, tomorrow is Weds. and I haven't seen it yet... did I miss it, or are we behind deadline again? ;)
You and Jay have tapped into something very fun and very cool-- you guys are definitely in your own super hip genre. And the way you described the dooce thing about no comments no visitations made me think of that line in Age of Innocence where Elena Olenska says to Newland that maybe the van der Luydens are so "it" because they never go out and entertain so rarely. But I think she's so popular cause people love her and she's so searingly honest and funny and has her own voice.
DUDE! Dooce is my hero. I would marry her if she wasn't already married... well, and a woman, but you get what I mean.
I have written 3 times (stalker-ish kinda) about some fairly serious stuff. Even about someone stealing her pregnant belly photos and caliming they were her...but I never got a response so good luck man... good luck.
P.S. You are what you are. Enjoy it
Genuine, I think if you look closely at "popular" bloggers like Dooce you will see that most of them have been at it for years, meaning that (1) They've had time to build their readership and (2) They have been consistently "good" in order to keep their readers loyal. My goal is to be a blogging "survivor", that is to "hold out the longest" in the hope of still being here when the others crash and burn. I think some of us couldn't walk away anyway even if we wanted to (look at Mindy). I only started blogging one year ago, and even that is not a long time in "blogging years." Remember, Rome was not built in a day.
I agree with Lizbeth: I reckon part of Dooce's popularity is to do with having sustained good-quality writing for quite a long period of time. But that's a good point too about her reticence from involving herself in the blogging community - it just adds to her attraction!
How do you know that Dooce is so popular? I am asking this seriously cause I'm not familiar with the blogging world and such.