Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Another seed/topic

*sigh* - alright, here's another topic I found interesting on the Seeded Buzz site: Authenticity in blogging. Not sure I gave that much thought really. To date I follow very few blogs - one of them is my friend Dianne's food blog and I've no reason to question the authenticity there, another is by a woman who lives on San Juan Island and posts amazing pictures of wildlife native to the San Juan Islands - no reason for doubt there either. By the way, those two blogs, respectively are: A Stove With A House Around It and Orca Watcher, and I highly recommend both. The post about authenticity in blogs is http://www.puttingthefunindysfunctional.com/2011/01/authenticity-in-blogging.html and there's an additional post at http://rantsnrascals.com/bloggers-and-integrity.

I don't want to say too much here - I view my own blog as authentic, but for one post that had me attempting to write humorously about horoscopes, and I don't see horoscopes as holding much in the way of authenticity, but that's just me folks. Everything else here is pretty much me - I may go so far as giving a specific person's first name and some of you who read this blog may actually know that person if you know me. You may also know exactly who I am talking...er, writing about even if I don't mention a name. Some of you have actually told me that you like having a cameo in a post or two. This blog is the real deal folks, rambling and all. Truth be told, I'd love it if more of you actually commented here as opposed to commenting on face book - but whatever works for you! Should anyone want to question the authenticity of anything I've posted here, bring it. I can 'splain anything that's here.

I'll close this post with my thoughts on authenticity of bloggers that sell things and therefore get paid money from others. There's no wiggle room here - if you're selling something to someone and using your blog as a means of doing that, then you need to be 100% authentic. Don't rip people off. It's that simple! So there you have it - the blogs I read and/or follow are authentic and so is this one!

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