Julie Leung wrote praising difficult to categorize blogs. I loved reading this piece as some of favorite blogs, as well as my own, are somewhat difficult to categorize.
The press has recently jumped on the blogging phenomena, but mostly they seem to focus on blogs that are easier to categorize like the political blogs. Those blogs probably make better copy and are easier for journalists to write about. Personally, I just don't find the easy to categorize blogs nearly as interesting as the personal blogs. Reading personal blogs, with their varied topics makes me feel like I'm getting to know a real human being who has more than one thought or topic to talk about.
In the course of this piece, Julie quoted Real Live Preacher, a blog that Young Joel has pointed me to in the past.
"Some people say that I’m a liberal Christian, but I don’t think of myself that way. I don’t want to be a liberal or a conservative.
I want to be a surprise."
-- Real Live Preacher, Telling the Truth
Funny, I like the idea of being a surprise. I wonder what I would have to do to surprise people.
I've got a couple of good ideas as to how you could surprise people. Email me if you want to know.