Already hip?
This is the question that WordPress has just asked all of us who have started a blog. I went to the “create a blog” page, and my eyes were drawn to the section that said: “Already hip? Sign in to your account.” So, right before this moment, I was not hip. Un-hip. Hipless.
I don’t know. I felt pretty hip and with it before I got this blog. But, I guess this just goes to show you how blogs have become the new phenomenon. If you don’t have one you are hopelessly out of date (WordPress knows it and now we know it).
Maybe I felt hip before signing up to this account, because I already have a blog on livejournal. Obviously my past elljay (slang for “livejournal” for un-hip people) musings were nothing amazing – I didn’t dissect any theories, or write the great Canadian novel – they were only for my reflection. I never saw blogs as a way to express deep notions. If you want to get deep, get yourself published.
Of course, most of my experience with blogs has been reading angsty teenage poetry (not writing any…I swear). For me, it is hard to see this medium as enriching, but I guess that is what this project is all about.
All of us PR students will be able to get up on our virtual soap box each week and wax nostalgic on interesting tidbits. The more I think about it, blogs seem to be a good tool to display writing abilities. Perhaps they can add some colour to a resume/portfolio.
Or perhaps they are some crazy fad that will disappear in a couple of months. All I know is that I will have to keep writing in mine. I mean, I want to stay “hip”…don’t you?
helsinkiwinner said,
February 7, 2008 at 12:23 am
Ever since watching Californication, I think blogs are such a fad. Hank Moody was greatly against writing a blog, he didn’t think people would be interested in what he had to say (or should I say, write).
I think because you and I, along with so many more people our age have or have had online journals, it only seems that blogs are restricted to youth with nothing but teenage worries and emotional overload. It is definitely hard to take blogs/online journals seriously because of that.
Perhaps this is the wave of the future. I’m just glad that we were forced to create a more mature blog, and now I can get my message across without using emoticons.
anichka said,
March 26, 2008 at 3:40 am
I agree with you, it probably could be used for a portfolio or part of a resume. Yours definatly could, not so sure about mine. If its needed i’ll start from scratch and make a “hip” blog to add to my resume.