Entry #1: Flogging Blogs

Before I begin dissecting blogs that I've read and my opinion on opinions of opinions (some of them being actual facts), I want to state that before college, the closest I came to a blog was from Tumblr's 'Did You Know?' Facebook page because I am a nerd who loves factoids. Now as I determine more of who I am, what I want to be, and who I set out to be; my opinions of blogs is starting to take a polar shift. I have started following blogs for groups that share the same interest as myself outside of my required studies.

www.zeldainformer.com

The very first blog I took my own liberty to follow is for the only video game series I play on any available free time I have, which is the Legend of Zelda series. One blog in particular, is Zeldainformer. where both volunteer writers, commenters, and paid writers all take time to share common interests and dissect all info from all Zelda games and everything Zelda related. They look at all aspects of why the writer personally likes a subject and how it affects them. They also look over fiscal and other Nintendo related items because Nintendo's success is linked to the Zelda series success. Over all it is mostly a personal blog with some professional aspects sprinkled in to certain subjects.
The next two blogs were blogs I reviewed from Blogger Busters "The Top 50 Blogger Blogs" (http://www.bloggerbuster.com/2008/05/top-50-blogger-powered-blogs.html) and the first was an art blog. This one personally caught my eye because before I took on music, I focused on physical arts, mainly sketching. This next blog was the number one blog at the top, Post Secret.
Post Secret had a lot of Facebook likes from a lot of my friends and I was disappointed I never heard of it before. I personally enjoyed how all art posts are mailed in anonymously on post cards, and how each post had a different picture, a different story, and a can be intermitted in many ways depending on the person. Some posts are pointless, some are satire, some are just made to make you ponder the different quotes that are sent in. It can inspire, and relate, to all who follow the blog and I see it's very connected with its followers, which are mostly young adults.

As you can see, I'm a really artsy person. 

The next blog caught my attention solely by it's name, Hullabaloo (digbysblog.blogspot.com, #7 on the top 50 list). Which who can blame me, say it out loud and you can be in my stinky shoes for a couple seconds. Yet with such a fun name, this blog deceived me. If I had read on the Blogger Bust small text under the links it would not have, but the name just caught my attention so well. It's contents are not as fun to read as it's name because it is mostly a political blog. Skimming through it's contents it continued to, quite simply, bore me. I understand the social issues that they are stating and debating about, but it's all the same content from any other political blog/website or what a few people would post on my Facebook. The most enticing post was a Super Bowl recipe, everything else seemed to me like a self-righteous political news source with the same content of Fox News but with different opinions than Fox. It was simply content I wouldn't read unless required for a school assignment. 

"Why can't we be friends?"

For those that took the time to read my blog and read the links, what are your opinions? Did any of the ones that entertained me bore you (or Vice-Versa)? Let me know!