  Basically, blogs come in different varieties and abound with content styles. I've done most of them, from the first few 'testing' posts to the (unfortunately) most common 'what-did-I-do-today' rambles and rants about (school)life in general. Then I moved house to the more thoughtful, more insightful blog entries about life, how good and how bad it can get, to musings about your everyday everyday occurences. Somehow or rather, I have never gotten round to blogging about technology, like urlLink Daring Fireball or specially mantaining a blog to post about specifics like web standards and the like. Well, maybe when I get my iMac or iBook at the end of the month, I would have fallen so in love with Apple that I might start a fan site. But let's not digress. I think I may know why so many blogs out there haven't been updated for months and years, and why some people grow bored of blogging. Yes, even the very very good blogs that don't do the 'what-did-I-do-today' thing. I feel a sense of regret for all the wannabe bloggers out there, my friends included, for starting out blogging as writing journals of where they went, what they ate, who they talked to, and who they insulted (or insulted them, which among bloggers seem to be the more common occurence). It's a rather senseless fad, publishing your journal online. Most people who blog like that don't actually keep a pen-and-paper journal before they discovered the electronic version. If they had even tried to, they'll know perfectly that it's tediously humdrum to regurgitate everything you did in that day just to translate it into a book.
Seriously, nobody really cares what you did today, who you went out with today, who you screamed at today. However, most bloggers discover this the slow way. It's not a matter of how many hits or comments you get at your blog; if it's that way, the interest will surely wane, the desire will fade away. If you had ever peeked at a pen-and-paper journal that's supposed to be kept really secret, it's not itineraries at all.
It seems that the general (around my age) blogging populace have got the wrong idea after all. What I really admire and bookmark when it comes to content are blogs that choose to tell stories based on everyday occurences. Blogs like these reflect a thinking, dynamic mind of the blogger, who doesn't give weight to the things that revolve about him, but simplistic, daily events that revolve around his environment that most people shrug off as mundane. Being able to sit back and behold the very down-to-earth things of this world and to be able to convey that particular sense of preciousness and value and worth of something simple. It really makes me think that God, although he created the enormous, big things of this universe like the galaxies and stars, also give as much depth and focus to the small little things of this world that go by unnoticed. Perhaps that's one of the reasons why photography has always appealed to me. Of a picture speaking a thousand words?
Maybe. Photography, although extravagant sunrises are nice, also chooses to focus on the simple, plain, but yet beautiful snapshots of our everyday world. Such blogs are a rarity nowadays. Paperdoll's gone, and Faith is not blogging anymore too. I would really love to see some local blogs of that kind of standard. Anyone give me some? 
