Busy in the blogosphere

Rather aware I haven’t written for a while – and simultaneously, have discovered a few more friends who have their own blogs.

Andrew Philip, a poet and reporter for the Scottish Parliament, who was part of the same linguistics department as me a few years ago, has a fairly frequent looking kind of blog, with lots of critiques of poetry, some thoughts on politics, and probably more. As I only discovered the blog today, haven’t yet seen much more than that.

Tony Pugh, a friend from church, and well-known cinema goer, has also got a blog, which includes his film reviews, and probably some more politics, with a global/social perspective.

Rupert, one of the leaders at church, now puts all his sermons (or seems to, anyway) on his blog, as well as a lot else, and encourages people to continue discussing with him after the event. (He also kindly writes comments on our blog – one of the few who do – so has to get a citation for that, at least.)

So where are all the women? Given stereotypes about which sex has more to say, there ought to be a lot of blogs written by women out there. Probably there are, and I just haven’t found them yet. Probably also, it’s a lot of fun writing your own posts, and this can detract from getting round to reading other people’s.

Meanwhile, Dan seems to be advising ever more clients to consider using blogs to manage comments from staff (on an intranet), or include advice from visitors to a site who have used a service (like a reviews site, but a little more informal?).

Anyway, I’m just getting into my stride here, and have managed to write a post that isn’t about food, or travel, so I’d better go back and consult my notebook as to what else I’ve been planning to write about for the last few weeks…