What Planet are You From? June 4, 2007
Posted by Minerva in blogs.trackback
Reading one of Mark Lindner’s recent posts struck a chord with me. He commented on his blog being added to two aggregators.
I am honored to be included with many of the folks on both of these lists. It’s just that I don’t think of my blog as a “cataloging blog” or a “coder blog” or even a “library blog.” It’s just (part) of me and, as some of you know, I am trying to stitch my life together. You will find shades of all sides of me here: the goofball, the word lover, the philosopher, the cataloger, the desirer, the depressive, the patriot, the protester, the father, the student, the reader, the music lover, the friend, the “32 flavors and then some.” Seeing as I’m still not sure how I feel about blogging, it’s pretty simple that I don’t know how I feel about being in other places. But I do appreciate it.
Since this blog was also added to one of these aggregators, it gave me pause. First, I was simply blown away to have this blog even linked in the same sidebar as the other blogs. Then, I began to fret a bit. Will my next post be about cataloging? What about the next? What if I want to write about literature? or Slavic studies? Whatever will become of me? (Don’t laugh; if you were new to blogging, you’d feel the same.)
Then I noticed something in my feedreader. These same bloggers were carrying on as before, writing about what they wanted. Sometimes it was related to the subject of cataloging, sometimes not. But it was still worth the read.
So I’ll continue to write as the spirit (or whatever it is) moves me. Or, put more simply: what he said.
I had the same conversation as you, Minerva, only with other people as well as myself and I’ve been blogging for 2.5 years now. Thankfully they told me, “Don’t be silly! Write what you want.” Still, I fully understand the thought.
Thanks, Mark.