What drives readers away from a blog? Joyless and monomaniacal writing says James Lileks who blogs at The Daily Bleat. Mark Savage of the BBC is meeting bloggers.
James Lileks, a journalist from the American Mid West, has made an art of writing very funny and entertaining pieces on everyday subjects from bin bags to bagels.His site is a brilliant example of what you can do on the internet, including his blog The Daily Bleat, a regular podcast from The Diner, home movies which you can download and a glorious collection of 1950s ephemera.
His advice is simple: "You can be joyless, you can be mono-maniacal, but joyless monomania is what does it.
The radio programme that I heard today was quite interesting, particularly when the go fug yourself folks came on.
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Mark Morford has an exceptionally optimistic — dare I say, "triumphal" — article on the collapse of the religious right today.
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In anticipation of forking over multiple dead presidents, a healthy kidney and sacrificing a pair of white doves to enter the local googolplex cinema to see 3:10 to Yuma, I indulged in a Christian Bale-o-thon this weekend.
I was just tagging this for the Links Dump, but I thought it deserved better.