15 Day Book Blogger Challenge, Day 8

April at Good Book and Good Wine asks:

Quick! Write 15 bullet points of things that appeal to you on blogs!  (She means things I like to see on other people's blogs, not things about blogging in general.  Wow, I used the word blog way too many times there.  Isn't it just the ugliest word?  Blog.  Ick.  I think I need Shakespeare or Samuel Johnson or somebody to invent a word with some dignity to it--clearly we 21st century folks are no good at naming things.)

  1. Pretty pictures, but not GIFs.  Especially really neat photographs from the past--I'm no good at it myself but I appreciate it!
  2. A layout I can look at.  Not a dark or busy background, a nice clear font, and a clean layout (not sure I have that myself!).
  3. Interesting thoughts--I love long rambly posts that have a point about life or literature or whatever.
  4. It is awful of me but I like to know a bit of personal information, like location and stuff.  I absolutely understand the desire to be anonymous, but I do love to get to know people a little bit.
  5. A little bit of variety--fun stuff as well as straight book reviews.  But there needs to be enough real content to keep me coming back.
  6. People who introduce me to amazing new authors--and there are so many!
  7. Bloggers with different interests, who can teach me something about some special genre or corner of the world.  If someone has a thing for Polish literature or golden age mysteries or something, I want to read about it.  The more obscure the better.
  8. Only one sidebar.  I find it hard to focus when there are two.
  9. People who host neat challenges!
  10. An easy comment system.  Spambots are making that impossible, so it's a bootless wish.  But Disqus is a pain.
  11. Things that don't move or make noise.  Which is a backwards way of saying that I dislike things that move or make noise.
  12. I also don't like videos much, because I can read a lot faster than I can listen and watch.  If it can be written, I prefer it written, but I know there are good reasons for vlogging too (vlog.  An even worse word than blog.)
  13. Comment replies--which I am totally guilty of not doing.  I can't always think of something to say!
  14. An appreciation of good cover art--from the past as well as the present.  I subscribe to several blogs that are just about vintage cover art.
  15. People who comment on MY posts!


Comments

  1. I giggled at "Things that don't move or make noise" - so true! And Disqus... ah, I did it once, it took me about 10 minutes, and I'll never do it again...

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  2. Yay, somebody agrees with me! Yeah, Disqus makes it so difficult that it's not worth the effort to comment. :(

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  3. Funny, I meant to reply to your comment on my (that word you do not like). So, I wanted to add in response to your #2: yes! your blog is pleasant to view b/c of the simple font and choice of blue and clean layout.

    And P.S. I cannot stand Disqus either; they want too much information, and I cannot be bothered.

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