Critiquing

I don't have any objection to critiquing our blogs. I think that it is important to recognize that whatever we choose to write should have certain standards because it is going out to the public. For my own critiques I'm not so much concerned with the content as I am the technical aspects of a particular post. Spelling as well as punctuation are important, as well as clarity. If a blog post does not appear to have any organization or clear message its trying to evoke for the reader then I'll probably take issue with it. There has to be some effort behind the post. The most important thing I'm looking for is to be informed about something... if the post is merely someone's diary entry then I probably won't be invested, I'll be left asking myself why should I care? Actually I probably wouldn't ask myself that because I don't usually mind reading that sort of prose, but it does have to have a level of clarity for me to be able to access it.

My blog is no doubt random. I go from Meryl Streep to gelato, to the anti-Nazi resistance movement. Nevertheless, I hope that someone who goes into my blog and reads the posts individually will get something from them one way or another. They are each self-contained, but if they can provide some new insight to a topic or person then that's the best I can hope for. My fear with focusing on one topic in particular was that the posts would become too repetitive, and also that if a reader did not take interest in the topic of my choosing they would not pursue my blog as a whole. That being said there is a method behind my 'random' madness... well, hopefully you will think so too. *Crosses fingers*