To me, a blog is a very different thing to rec.juggling
Blogs are more a curated collection of interesting items, presented in a
way that allows you to comment or feed back about the items. They're a
bit like a museum or art gallery with a discussion area around each
exhibit.
rec.juggling is a gloriously open mishmash of anything and everything.
There are interesting items in there, but there are also old tin cans and
pieces of chewing gum - and there isn't as much of a focused discussion
area, more of a room full of drunken idiots shouting at eachother.[1]
> But obviously you already know about rec.juggling. What are you looking
> for from a juggling blog? (and is that something we should post more
> about on r.j?)
What I want from a juggling blog is a person (or team of people) writing
thoughful pieces about juggling, or posting interesting videos that they've
found which they think I should watch (along with a description of the
video and why it's relevant - which so rarely happens on here but happens
a lot on blogs)
circusgeeks, ministryofmanipulation and the ija e-zine hit that square on
for me, they each have a slightly different focus, but all have exposed
bits of the juggling world to me that I didn't know existed, or have
presented ideas I'd never thought of.
-Paul
[1] Probably a better analogy is that following a blog is a bit like watching
the highlights of a football game on TV. rec.juggling is more like playing
football with your mates.
But that analogy doesn't involve tin cans and chewing gum so I don't like
it as much ;)
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