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As silly as it may sound, my problem might be due to writing about my own interests. I'm not offering help or advice, I wouldn't even say I'm offering specific

As silly as it may sound, my problem might be due to writing about my own interests. I'm not offering help or advice, I wouldn't even say I'm offering specific info (since what I do is more exploratory), and I generally leave opinions out of it. If I had to explain it, I'm like a somewhat randomized, editorialized Wikipedia for a specific topic. I want readers to click around as if on Wikipedia, so they can gather a wide-ranging, hopefully in-depth view of the topic (in this case, a major city and its cultural/historical context).

vpslab_sk 10y ago
First, OT, I'm unable to edit my comment so sorry for the typos, my spell-checker was apparently on holiday. Now, to address your reply, people _are_ opinion-forming beings, its our human nature. We do have opinions even if we try to convince our-selves we don't. Writing a blog without exposing your opinion just so you won't offend anyone is an intellectual humanity-denying crime. Its a form of self-castration in my eyes. If you insist on writing dry, soul-less pieces of wikipedia-like information, maybe blogging is not the right format for you. Opinions are the "sauce" of an article. We are all humans, no-one remembers that colleague who never had an argument about anything, but you do remember that one ahole who always meant trouble, his opinions and world views. You may even miss that ahole once in a while ("yeah, I'm sure would have said something to that manager")
- personlurking 10y ago
  Well, I did write 'editorialized', meaning they aren't 'dry, soul-less pieces of wikipedia-like information'.
  - vpslab_sk 10y ago
    Well, no reason to take my comment personally, I don't know your work. I was merely taking advantage of your reply to take a punch at the current wave of political correctness and a special form of auto-censorship disguised as politeness, that's crawling into the blogosphere like a drunken monkey into a liquor factory.. + this sub-thread is OT anyway

vpslab_sk 10y ago

First, OT, I'm unable to edit my comment so sorry for the typos, my spell-checker was apparently on holiday. Now, to address your reply, people _are_ opinion-forming beings, its our human nature. We do have opinions even if we try to convince our-selves we don't. Writing a blog without exposing your opinion just so you won't offend anyone is an intellectual humanity-denying crime. Its a form of self-castration in my eyes. If you insist on writing dry, soul-less pieces of wikipedia-like information, maybe blogging is not the right format for you. Opinions are the "sauce" of an article. We are all humans, no-one remembers that colleague who never had an argument about anything, but you do remember that one ahole who always meant trouble, his opinions and world views. You may even miss that ahole once in a while ("yeah, I'm sure would have said something to that manager")

personlurking 10y ago
Well, I did write 'editorialized', meaning they aren't 'dry, soul-less pieces of wikipedia-like information'.
- vpslab_sk 10y ago
  Well, no reason to take my comment personally, I don't know your work. I was merely taking advantage of your reply to take a punch at the current wave of political correctness and a special form of auto-censorship disguised as politeness, that's crawling into the blogosphere like a drunken monkey into a liquor factory.. + this sub-thread is OT anyway