This here blog. What’s it gonna be?
Monday, January 30th, 2006At the Blogstravaganza Friday night (lots of recaps out there) I mentioned that the blog report I did for the election site is now over, and I wanted to get this here blog going with daily posts.
Someone (I can’t remember who, sorry) suggested I just do the same thing here as I did at work. It’s a good idea, but there are a couple of problems with it, though.
One is that it takes a bit of time to go through all the political websites on all sides and find interesting stuff to write about every day. That was OK when I was getting paid for it, but I don’t know if I really have the spare time to do that every day.
The other problem is… well… see this is where it gets tricky. Revealing this could be a career-limiting move in my job. But, hey, as long as it’s just between you, me and the intarweb, I guess it’s OK.
Here goes.
I’m not really all that interested in politics.
Well, not every day anyway.
And I don’t think it’s really all that uncommon among journalists. I’ve often heard journalists say that a certain story is too “inside baseball” for a general audience, that doesn’t obsess about politics the way journalists do. (Incidentally, I’d always assumed that phrase was taken from the title of some show on ESPN until I read the Wikipedia entry on it.)
So whatever this blog turns into, it’s not going to be a strictly political blog. There’s too much other stuff going on.
