I’m always on the lookout for good blogs. Especially good blogs like mine.
I mean, let’s be honest. There are a lot of blogs out there, and not many of them are good. When it comes to “personal” blogs, the pickings are even slimmer. Well-written personal blogs by college students are practically nonexistant.
Finding a well-written, interesting personal blog is sort of like rummaging through a thrift store. It all may have important to someone at some time, but you’re still going to look at a lot of crap before you find something you like.
Of course, rarely is there a problem that technology won’t try to solve, so I figured I’d let someone do the searching for me. I went into my Bloglines subscriptions and clicked on the “related blogs” feed for my blog. I’m not sure how the algorithm works, but presumably, Bloglines in its infinite wisdom looks at all the words I use frequently–you know, words like “procrastination” and “the”–and spits out a list of blogs that are not that different (and hopefully not crappy). So far so good.
Trouble is, apparently all of the blogs that best match mine are about knitting. Like, all of them. Here’s my top 5:
I don’t knit. In fact, I firmly believe that an active knitting habit is correlated with serious sexual frustration. (c’mon, admit it, who do you know that knits?) I have no idea why anyone would confuse my blog with a blog about knitting. None whatsoever.
Forget the thrift store analogy. Trying to find good blogs by listening to Bloglines is like listening to a sketchy used car salesman. Now matter how great they pitch it to be, something is obviously seriously wrong with it.
Posted on April 18th, 2006 by Lee
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my roommate knits. I don’t. I will bet you anything you like that I am more sexually frustrated than she is, given that she has a boyfriend with whom she is very affectionate in public. I don’t know (and don’t want to know) what they do when I’m not around but I am sure it’s enough to ensure that she isn’t sexually frustrated.