After three years of blogging, I kinda see life as one big bag of content that unfolds on blogs. I know. It's a bit nutzoid perhaps but whatev, a hint of crazy is good for traffic.
I'm constantly finding myself saying, "Oh that would be a great blog post, or this would make my next post funny." I carry my Nikon and Flip in my purse wherever I go because I always see something that would be blog worthy. And indeed, I do have the blog lady big purse.
I enjoy reading blogs mainly because it's a peek into someone's soul and heart. I feel honored to be a part of that intimacy and rawness that a blogger will share on his/her blog. I love to experience the expression of the blogger which is why I tend to gravitate more towards the lifestyle blogs because it's like making an impromptu visit on friends and strangers, and seeing what they're up to.
Blogging for a living sure beats a day at a regular office which here in Silicon Valley means being a cubicle gofer. What's way cool is that as a lifestyle blogger it is "my job" to see what people are doing in their day-to-day lives. It's cool to say that I "have to" spend time hanging out and socializing on Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and other social sites. Sometimes I feel like a sociologist or anthropologist. I'm telling you, 1000 years from now when the historians are trying to figure out how we lived, they'll be reading lifestyle blogs. Blogs are like the modern day Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Now on the flip side, I can find myself in periods of spending too much time online and not enough in the physical world. I have to be conscious about making dates to go out with my friends and family, and to make an effort to make new friends...in my physical locale.
Oh, I have made friends all over the world through blogging and socializing, but I can't ring up and say, "Hey meet me at the Starbucks in 5, or I'm making pot roast, come on over for dinner." When you're a blogger you could literally spend a week in your cave, and never leave, and even that would make for an interesting blog post. See, there I go.
Have you been blogging so long that almost everything reminds you of potential content for a blog post, or am I the only one :)
