Blog Number 2: You Spin Me
This blog belongs to an Aussie (Australian) woman… Oh come on! Like you’re really surprised!
Her own blog description: ” I'm a twenty something gal, getting on with life and giving it a good old fashioned go.”
This blog has only been online since October 2005, but I really wanted to take a closer look after seeing she was: 1. from Australia, 2. my age, 3. it somewhat reminded me of my early blogging days.
Content – Everday life, trips, horoscope, song lyrics, movies, outings with friends, her job, dreams and her interpretations of them, the weather and her cats Fred & Ginger (hehehe). She allows comments. Earlier posts have a lot to do with working on herself and some sort of seminar she went t She ends each post with ”love k,” like a letter. She’s very open about her insecurities and problems with her self image as well as problems and feelings about her past relationships (more open than I would ever be in a public forum). She’s working on these. She also talks about her craft projects and has made links for her quilts, handbags, and cross stitch (though nothing on these pages yet).
Her posts contain at least one image, sometimes pictures she has taken, sometimes not.
Audience – Family and friends and herself. She posted a Happy Birthday to her Mum and her dearly departed Uncle B. She refers to her readers as “yall” and “all.” That is my intended audience, but I wouldn’t share a lot of the things that she does.
Kind of Blog – This blog is an online journal. The posts are written almost in the forms of letters, but I would classify it as a journal. Her posts can be quite long.
Purpose – Her main purpose is to suss out her feelings about issues in her life and to work things out like her self-image and such. She’s also keeping track (to some extent) of her exercise and diet.
In Chapter 2, Rebecca Blood talks about the motives for blogging; “information sharing, reputation building, and personal expression.” This blog is one of personal expression much like a notebook.