Now say that 5 times fast!
For the 1st blog prompt, blogging on our thoughts about an interview with bloggers by Rebecca Blood. I chose to read Tiffany B. Brown's interview.
I skimmed most of the other interviews, like any other reader of online material, and what attracted me to Brown's interview was the phrase: "Web technology and design, internet life, stuff that catches my eye, and whatever is rumbling through my head at the moment".
Well, I really breezed over the "web technology and design..." part. What really interested me was "stuff that catches my eye, and whatever is rumbling through my head..."! Interesting people are only interesting if they can get away from the dry, boring stuff and into the random, what-the-heck-is-that stuff.
I also enjoyed when Brown said that she thought she had more to write about when she focused on topics in gender, race, and culture instead of web development.
Because people are more interested in controversies than stuff they cannot understand.
True, people are more interested in political or cultural controversies than dry, boring technical stuff. But when you are having a problem with a piece of software or de-bugging a webpage, boring tech blogs can be a godsend. Over the Winter vacation I spent a lot of time visiting some tech blogs to solve a problem I was having with a virus on my laptop.
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