I Hate Your Blog

MC Frontalot – I Hate Your Blog

Just thought I'd share this track by MC Frontalot, godfather of nerdcore hip-hop, about terrible blogs that we somehow keep reading. (For those more liberally inclined, he's also got a couple of funny tracks about Iraq, homosexuals, and how much indier he is than you.)

I'd also like to pose a question to you all. (But first, the all-important background information!) I tend to read quite a few personal blogs. I've done so for quite awhile. Some blogs I've been reading for more than six years. Consequently, I've gotten to know some of these bloggers pretty well. However! Eventually, I interact with these people in, you know, real life, and it's really weird. Alex, who's led an eclectic set of jobs (including a mall security guard, keytar player for a new wave band, and graduate student at Berkley) I eventually spoke to over the phone when she was a radio personality at Brown University's student radio station. Matt, an Australian living in Japan, I eventually met in Tokyo over coffee. Leah, minor internet celebrity because her blog was picked up by news outlets as an example when blogging was just becoming popular, I now know because I do web development for her husband's band. In every case, I was probably most surprised by their voices. Even though I know Matt's Australian, or that Leah lives in Texas, I don't read their blogs with their voices in mind. Stranger still was the fact that I knew quite a bit about their personal lives, but they knew nothing of mine.

I'm wondering if this is just me, or if any of you have experienced similar awkward situations, for example, when first meeting a blogger.