100 Best “Blogs”

June 28, 2007 D. H. McKee

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Aside from the stupidity of claiming their own blog on the “Top 100 list”, these guys are stretching the definition of “blog” to the limits. Multiple authors, news sites, feeds for news sites, online columns by reporters — these are not blogs, at least not in the traditional sense. There’s nothing personal about any of them. Sure, by this definition, the MissingLinks page is not a “blog”, and I agree. It’s a links page, with rare commentary, and multiple authors who post bookmarks of pages they thought were interesting.
100 Blogs We Love – Page1 – MSN Tech & Gadgets – News and Features

In compiling our list, we realized that reasonable men and women may disagree on the definition of a blog. For example, we quickly discarded the notion that a blog must be the work of an individual: Some of the best, including, and we hope you’ll agree, our own Today @ PC World, are the work of many people. But we all agreed that a good blog has at least some element of voice: The people who write it express an opinion in the words they write and the images they include.

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As a guy who occasionally curates art shows and wrangles artists together, I often have to edit and post artist bios, profile pictures, and artwork images. This can be a problem, since many artists and writers aren’t used to selling themselves. Artists rarely know how to present their art for display in a brochure, and writers aren’t used to writing about themselves.

Writers often treat the bio like it’s an interview or something. Maybe like they’re having a conversation with you, the reader. While it may work sometimes, the most common way to write a bio is to write in the 3rd person.

I’m like those writers, and I’m talking to you directly, unlike the common way to do a bio. You should see my About page. It makes sense to me, since this is a bit which describes my blog’s website. When I get famous enough that I don’t have time to talk to you, I’ll have an intern write everything in 3rd person. Until then, you get to talk to me.

Like blogs of old, this one is a personal document of the comings and goings of me. Articles I’ve written, links I’ve posted, videos I liked, etc. Here, a first-person perspective is the way to go, at least for now. So, this is my site. I’m D. H. McKee, a sometimes artist, sometimes writer. Mostly just a guy on the internet.