Brand-A-Blog

Last night I wrote about how each blog I read has so much personality and is so unique. (See 4/28/02 below "Big Blog Fan Me"). This became the breakfast discussion this morning.

He: What kept you up so late, I thought you were coming to bed?

She(ME): Well, I started writing something in my blog.

He: Figured.

What is it about other media that manages to ERASE unique human voice from their communications? My husband thinks it has a lot to do with COST of production. He reminded me of the movement in cable access tv (circa 1980's) when it looked like everyone in the world would have a video camera and could produce their own talk show cheap. It didn't happen because the cost and the technology were still barriers to entry.

He's sensitive to this because he's worked in the movies where the battle royale is how a writer/director can work on such a long collaborative project and still create something with a true voice.

Blogs sound like the people who write them, because ONLY the people who write them, are WRITING THEM. No committee design. No advertising influence. No ratings, sortof.

So what I was getting at below was that each blog has such a clear voice and ... dare I say ... brand? I'll leave that there, a tiny kidskin gauntlet daintily tossed out, for the rest of you to tear apart and sew back together as you wish.