As you well know, MJB, I'm well over 200 years old, so I've unfortunately chosen to ignore my personal blog so as to irritate more people via the Cafe. It's an outrageous situation. In no ways should JT encourage my opinions in any way associative way with CMAA. Go figure. I really need to pay some attention to the quietude of my whole four followers at Musica Optima.

Charles - you are barely 150, don't exaggerate! However, I appreciate your need to enhance international aggravation.

It's good to see people exercising self-discipline and using their time well when they choose what to read.
If only people would do the same in choosing what to write!

Blogs are based on the assumption that the writer has something important to say, and the reader has time to waste reading it.

You could say the same about any written thing. Does that mean that everyone should stop writing, unless it is 100% useful?
Some people read for enjoyment. And some blog writers write for enjoyment.

Fine, but that certainly doesn't call for putting them all under the blanket statement of "wasting time" and a "novelty worn off."

MJ, I still dream of blogging on mostly sacred and some concert (classical) music, sort of a 'tales from a Catholic musician' sort of venture. It would be partly educational, covering documents and sharing resources, and partly narrative. Quirky and substantial. For liturgy geeks, lovers of sacred music, and the curious.

The blog name would be 'Singing Mum', of course. At this point things need to wait until I make a proper heroine's cape for an emerging liturgical operative, or until Dominic is a little older. So, I'm prob two years away from the dream.

Until then, I'm observing other blogs and mulling things about in my tired mind.

Okay, everyone just calm down. Here are my 37 cents on the subject of blogging.
1. It has become increasingly difficult to target potential readers
2. It is likewise difficult for potential readers to find blogs of interest in an overcrowded cyberspace
3. I rarely comment on any blogs that I do read. I'm way past "me too" and when I don't agree, I'm not interested in a squabble
4. Linking to your blog through Facebook has worked best for me
5. Blogs can be an excellent way of surfacing the writer's own ideas - and that's good too.
6. I don't worry about traffic
7. I read very few blogs myself, probably 1/4 what I read three-four years ago
8. Perhaps blogging is a worn-out term and we'd be better to think of constantly updated web sites.
9. I have work to do this morning.
10. Thanks to everyone for their input - and if you know a worthy blog or sacred music forum/web site, let me know.

Duh... see the 4th comment...

CharlesW... I do not care if you (or anyone) reads my blog. That's not why I write it. This was a pleasant thread with people sharing their blogs for anyone who was interested, until, for no reason in particular, you decided to come in and criticizing them. If you don't have anything positive to add about blogs, perhaps you ought to leave this thread, or start your own thread where you can criticize them all you want.

I'm not sure if this is a blog or what. I don't know what Tumblr is. But it's a Tumblr.

http://soyoureachurchmusician.tumblr.com/

It's written by a facebook friend, and it's quite funny. Be advised that there's some measure of foul language there, so the easily offended should probably avoid it altogether.

I think Tumblr is where are the people who used to write one-liners went in the visual age. Thanks, Gavin.

Thanks Gavin, that soyoureachurchmusician thing is GREAT! I needed that today!!