Personal blogs are interesting things.
I have an old pastor friend (I guess it is former pastor now) who runs a blog called ourgreenroom. I also have a cousin that runs a blog or two and many a friend from College who do the same.
So what is my observation? For the tech savvy, blogs have replaced the "Christmas Card Family Newsletter." When I get the feeling to troll the blogs of my friends and family (for those without RSS feeds) I generally learn something new, provided they actually took the time to blog.
Now some may say that personal blogging is the domain of MySpace, but MySpace is a sensory overloaded kitschy Jr. High romper-room. Full of advertisment laden "My sexual animal is X blog profile polls" and tricked out animated gifs that are cool the first hundred times you see them, but not the subsequent 10,000. And for heaven's sake, a flashing black background with cartruse text makes normal people sick as they try and read your entries.
In the advertising world this is known as all package and no substance.
Leave the gimmicks for the carnival rip-off games, create with style, grace, form and function... not noise.
