In my opinion, reading about blogs is as much fun as reading them. Joel Achenbach of The Washington Post has a hilarious take on his own blog and the blogosphere in general. Here’s a snippet:

I constantly tell myself: Ignore the blog. Do your work. You are an enormous literary figure and cultural icon, not a mere “blogger.” You must produce high-end journalism with grand themes and huge groaning multi-syllabic words like “eschatological,” and you can’t be dribbling away all your ideas on the blog. Be strong! Resist the blog!

And then . . . I hear it yowling.

The blog is hungry. The blog will not be ignored. It is an insatiable little beast, a creature still unclassified by science — hairy, warty, slobbering, with its own fiendish agenda.

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As an artist, my normal impulse is to write things that people don’t care about and, ideally, can’t even understand. Gibberish.

It’s obvious what people want: political screeds and celebrity gossip.

I know that my blog will be read by more people if it mentions famous celebrities who might be secretly boinking, such as Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

This is so true. One of the most popular posts I have ever written was about the DNA test Oprah took to confirm her membership in the African Zulu tribe. Since then, I’ve kept my eyes peeled for stories about celebrities and their DNA. No such luck yet.

Pointer from SYNTAGMA.