Meme mio!

I’m not very fond of Internet memes. They’re like TV series or soap operas to me. And I’m bad at following shows for more than a few chapters because I’m always doing several things at once, so if something else gets my attention, the repeating task will probably fall behind or be forgotten altogether. But then, I’ve been late at blogging too –as per usual–, so having a stimulus like this particular one to exercise my typing skills comes in handy. In that is at what memes excel: in producing easy/light web content when time runs short. So here are my answers to Strawberry Singh’s 14 questions in the Why do I blog? meme.

  1. How long have you been blogging? It’s been 4 years and 5 months, since December 2008.
  2. Why did you start blogging?  I wanted to add another dimension to my Second Life, somehow. Back then I was doing a lot of landscaping, so basically I thought it was a good idea to chronicle all of the transformations my plot was going through, and in doing so create some kind of directory of my favorite garden centers.
  3. How many times a week do you post an entry? How many times a week? (faints) Meh, I only have time to blog 2 or 3 times a month, at best.
  4. How many different blogs do you read on a regular basis? Fortunately, I’m better at reading blogs than I am at writing blog entries, so I read lots of them, a bunch of which I visit daily. It’s good to know what other people are thinking or doing. It gives you a sense of what’s going on in the world beyond the usual media coverage. As for how many exactly, I have no idea.
  5. Do you comment on other people’s blogs? Not as much as I would like, but yes I comment whenever I feel I have to. After all, you share your thoughts expecting some feedback, isn’t it? If it were otherwise, blogs would be mere collections of personal diaries, for private use only. That’s not the essence of blogging.
  6. Do you keep track of how many visitors you have? Yes I do. Statistics are always fun, and sometimes they even help in the blog’s maintenance. For instance, sometimes I try to blog on weekdays when I know I get more visitors. It’s also interesting to know where your readers come from.
  7. Did you ever regret a post that you wrote? So far, never. There’s no reason to regret what you think… maybe how you say it, but that’s another story.
  8. Do you think your readers have a true sense of who you are based on your blog? I guess my readers think I’m an ent, or that I go around hugging trees every other minute. If that’s the case, they don’t.
  9. Do you blog under your real name? My real name? As in my real SL name? Yes.
  10. Are there topics that you would never blog about? There are a lot of topics I don’t discuss because I lack the time to blog more often. I wish I could write about everything, actually.
  11. What is the theme/topic of your blog? It’s about gardening, landscaping and home decoration in SL, from a simple amateur’s perspective. I put things together as they appeal to me. I have no formal training whatsoever in any of those fields, not even self-taught. Also, my source of income is extremely limited, and since –so far– I buy everything readers see on the blog, I only include the few items I actually use. In that sense, my blog has never been a site for product reviews, but for product showcasing.
  12. Do you have more than one blog? If so, why? Considering I have a very limited supply of free time –that’s the reason why I’m a low profile blogger–, it would be unthinkable to start another SL-related blog. Yet, I have toyed with the idea of starting a second SL blog addressing the Spanish speaking residents. With such a seemingly diverse population across the SL grid, it is almost incredible to have so few non-English non-fashion blogs (that I know of) in other languages. I think there’s a need for that.
  13. What have you found to be the benefits of blogging? I really thought this question would have gone with no answer, but hell, there are a lot of benefits from blogging. When I do a landscaping job –that I know I’ll end of blogging after it’s done– for example, I don’t simply add things at random. I take into consideration the kind of landscape I want to do, the type of geography the place would fit in if it were in the real world, the type of vegetation that would grow in such an environment, the season it is, even when flowers bloom in real life. So now that I think of it, blogging about SL have helped me in learning and understanding more about RL nature.
  14. So, why do you continue to blog? How many times have I thought about quitting blogging? I think that should be the question for me. And the answer would be: many times, every time I blog, actually. I always have that weird “sensation” crawling in the back of my head whenever I start to write an entry, that after spending all that time organizing my thoughts and taking some pictures to accompany it, if there’s really someone somewhere, other than myself, appreciating the effort. That’s why commenting on blogs is so important: it gives us reason to keep blogging.

5 comments

  1. SpaceCase says:

    Re: #14, I always enjoy it when I see there is a new post from your blog and I look forward to seeing the pictures. I am guilty of not commenting very often though as I think “Ooohhh that looks great!” would get redundant. Thanks for sharing the awesome finds and pretty pictures with us!

    • xeriko says:

      Hi there, good to see you were able to comment. 🙂 And thanks for letting me know the captcha thing wasn’t working (who knows since when). Might be a plugin conflict or something to do with a recent update, though it seems more people using that captcha thingy were having problems recently too. What you say about commenting is true. I think that happens to all of us. I’ve also found myself thinking “why comment on that if somebody else will say the same thing in a short while” and then refrain from commenting. Pretty silly of me, I know.

  2. Darby says:

    Yeah, I’d post more often if I had something more interesting to say than “Damn. That’s cool.” I love the site though, so don’t think that there aren’t at least of couple of people who appreciate it.

    • xeriko says:

      Hi Darby. I have avoided enabling a “Like it” thingy on the site until now –didn’t see a point of using it– but it could be the best “solution” to this dilemma 🙂

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