BS: The lost Diary

Subject: BS: The lost Diary
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Jul 08 - 11:20 AM

It seems the concept of a private diary has given over to the public display of unfiltered brain oozing blogs...you know, like some posts you see here.

I think a dairy by children might give them a rudder while the winds of life push their sails in many directions.

It also might help indict many parents, but what the hey.

Two diary's would be best, one for the remeberance and one for rewrites.

Last night I found two blank diary books that I gave to my kids.
I woke today thinkg of Ann Franks and then accidently read the Aussie martyr diary.

The discipline of a diary is great. Sometines they are just notes of incidents ideas and jokes like WOody Allen or George Carlin but there is proof that a diary of some kind will focus the mind like nothing else, blogs included.

Can anyone defend blogs in coftrast to diaries?

Maybe I need to see some great examples of blogs...

Subject: RE: BS: The lost Diary
From: Emma B
Date: 31 Jul 08 - 11:31 AM

Donuel, take a look at Riverbend's blog

'Riverbend began the blog with the words: "I'm female, Iraqi and 24. I survived the war. That's all you need to know. It's all that matters these days anyway."

University-educated Riverbend worked as a computer programmer before the invasion which began on March 20, 2003.'

Subject: RE: BS: The lost Diary
From: Donuel
Date: 31 Jul 08 - 11:42 AM

Great blog for the west. Fox news should broadcast it daily.

Subject: RE: BS: The lost Diary
From: catspaw49
Date: 31 Jul 08 - 11:56 AM

I think Blogs are less focused on any introspection and pretty much just opinions, rants and the like. (My thoughts on why you are an Asshole).

A diary might be more along the lines of personal thoughts and introspection (Why do I meet so many assholes daily....Who they are and why they seek me out)

Really Donnie, I ain't gotta' clue but the following is definitely a blog and not a diary and also funnier than hell........The Angry Phamacist dot Com


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: The lost Diary
From: Bee
Date: 31 Jul 08 - 12:18 PM

There are a lot of good blogs. When I find one I like, I usually mine their personal blogroll (list of blogs they read themselves), and often find I like some of them as well.

I find the best bloggers are people who write to a specific subject, in the sciences, or geared toward whatever they are focussed on. I read a lot of biology, archaeology, paleontology blogs, a few writers' and artists' blogs, a few political blogs.

The political ones are usually rants, but often informative. The science blogs are just fascinating to me, as many of them are geared to explain science to laypersons like me, and they often attract intelligent commenters who are also in the sciences, so interesting conversations and debates occur. Arts blogs are usually geared to describing or defining the creative process, and as such are interesting to me, maybe not others.

Subject: RE: BS: The lost Diary
From: Amos
Date: 31 Jul 08 - 02:03 PM

BLogs are a totally different phenomenon than diaries. Blogs are not for the secret or strictly personal; they are for public consumption. That means very different things depending on whether you are a 55-year-old construction dude or a 14-year-old blooming girlette, but the medium is totally different.

Many blogs are centered around more than a self-history--they offer thoughts about issues, inside views of corporations, science and campuses. And even though some are just narcissistic drivel, many are thoughtful and informative.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The lost Diary
From: Emma B
Date: 01 Aug 08 - 01:09 PM

The diaries of the novelist George Orwell are to published online as a daily blog.

'The first entry will be posted on August 9, exactly 70 years to the day since the author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four wrote it.'

'Prof Jean Seaton, the director of the Orwell prize, said: "Orwell's diaries are eyewitness accounts from the frontlines of the 1930s: unemployment, gossip, fascism, communism - and chicken farming.

"All of these issues - at home and abroad - are seen through the passionate/dispassionate eye of a great writer and a decent man." '

Further details

Subject: RE: BS: The lost Diary
From: GUEST,Volgadon
Date: 01 Aug 08 - 06:02 PM

Blogs are rather like early newspapers.

Subject: RE: BS: The lost Diary
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Aug 08 - 12:19 PM

I am bringing some angry pharmacist pages to my pharmacist

Orwell is great.

Without your help I would never find these gems/ thanks.

I am curious as to what other things this sage and whacky group of cats have found.

Subject: RE: BS: The lost Diary
From: Emma B
Date: 02 Aug 08 - 04:00 PM

This
one was heartbreaking