Why Blogs Are Special

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Why Blogs Are Special

I write a blog that is nominally about my day job, being a VC.

But it's really not about that.

I blogged non stop about my trip to South Africa for two weeks.

I blog non stop about the music that I love.

And when something interesting happens to me, I blog about it too.

If you read the Venture Capital Journal, all you are going to get is stuff about Venture Capital.

If you read Wired, all you are going to get is stuff about technology.

If you read blogs, you get so much more.

Take Crossroad Dispatches for example, written by Evelyn Rodriguez.

Evelyn writes about marketing, technology, entrepreneurship and a bunch of stuff that would make her blog interesting to me.

I found her blog when she made this post about a few loose ends and linked to some posts I had done on the Grameen Foundation.

I told this story in another blog post, so you may be familiar with it.

But in that "loose ends" post Evelyn casually mentioned that she was going to be taking a few weeks off on the beach in Thailand. That post was made on December 13th.

Well you know what happens next. Her blog is a dramtic story of the tsunami, how she was affected (she was on a boat!), and the aftermath, getting home, etc.

She's done about 20 posts since the first one where she describes getting caught by the tsunami. Most of them are about the tsunami experience, but recently she's getting back to her normal beat.

This is what makes blogs special. They are real stories about real people doing real things. Told by the people who did them. How can you beat that?

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My blog is my lifetime digital memory...

http://divedi.blogspot.com/2004/12/lifetime-digital-memory-2.html

Posted by: Dimitar Vesselinov | Jan 7, 2005 8:10:03 AM

It certainly is a journal and it's facinating just who can get in touch with and relate to.

We kicked off our little blog, targeting 18-35 demographic and the blog aspect has gotten us a readership much faster than we could have anticipated and we're not even "officially" live yet!

I think it's something this format just bring a level of intimacy that has been missing across in well, "tech" world.

B.A.R. Editor
www.badassreviews.com

Posted by: Bad Ass Reviews | Jan 7, 2005 6:02:56 PM

Often the "loose ends" of a person's life are the bits that end up being the interesting bits.

Blogs allow us to be legal voyeurs into the lives of others. They also allow a level of connection and interaction while the blogger maintains some control over the process.

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