Top 10 Reasons Why Germany has Less Blogs than Iran

I like this list so much, I just linked to it right here.

I especially agree with number "6. Blogging is not required."

Occasionally I'll mentioned to German friends that I maintain a blog, and they almost always respond with:

1. Indifference
2. Very, casual interest
3. An offer of cheap but exciting sex

For me, hitting other people's (Berlin-based) blogs continuously provides a wealth of both useful and enlightening information.  So there.

Sometimes there's no better way to put your own measily life into perspective than to spend some time with the thoughts of young Americans struggling to come to terms with a climatologically-challenged foreign country and its citizens. Yes, this blog is actually titled "Germany Doesn't Suck . . . or does it?":

http://jbittner.com/germany/index.html

Or: http://homepage.mac.com/alison_petersen/iblog/

Which just goes to show you that there are those who blog, and those who blog.

Comments

[heather]

When I've mentioned to colleagues (academics) that I have a blog, I get one of two responses. The first and most common is, "I could never put my personal life out there in public like that." The second is, "I'm just not that interested in politics." It's really tough to explain to people that there's more to write about than those things, and even harder to convince them that I mostly read other blogs that are neither exclusively about somebody's personal life nor very political. Let's see: maybe the category for what I read is "cultural criticism." Academics should understand that, right?