I Can See Clearly Now....

I've never really bought into the whole concept of Internet blogging. At least not fully. Maybe it was Hollywood's all-to-common obstruction of reality and subliminal perversions made possible with faulty generalizations and cliche exploitations. But after spending just a few minutes on kottke.org, I am beginning to relinquish some of my misconceptions.

I previously, and still am aware, that some blogs are people-typical: nerd types, gaming types, shopping types, aspiring writer types, poser aspiring writer types, and the list meanders on. But I found "my kind of blog". It is extremely laid back and fun, and I feel a sense of camaraderie has established itself quite nicely between Jason Kottke & his commentators. He makes sure his site isn't typical and incorporates many relevant topics that are completely unrelated without being random or pointless. His topics vary from health, to news, to mini golf design contests, to science, to official font making, to cheap cars, and much more.

He starts off the discussion with a few short lines to draw people's attention & posts links to different websites where one can further investigate at his/her own pace or level. It's this atmosphere of independent dependence that I personally love: each post gives you the answers without exactly solving your problems, thus enlightening you without bombarding you with facts and opinions. You get to draw your own conclusions rather than read pages and pages of other people's conclusions and opinions, and then try to make sense of it all and make your own conlusion. The blog is competent, yet interesting. It's simple, yet simply realistic.

*SHOUT OUT TO YVAN!!!*

Check out his link, kottke.org, on the blogosphere; scroll down a little & on the right-hand side, under the subheading "Recently popular tags" click on the photography link. You can explore whatever you like from here, but I recommend/really like "The Ruins of Detroit", the first link of the passage. Cool pix, just follow the arrows, and comment back with the captions of your favs. =)