"Meta"-Blogging is common, but not necessarily a good idea. Anyway, here goes.
What do I mean by "Meta"? In Epistemology (the study of knowledge), the prefix meta is used to mean "about it's own category."
Meta-blogging would be blogging about blogging.
It ranges from the very interesting to the extremely mundane, as the author is sucked into metacommentary about themselves and their own thought process, an anbiguous topic at best. On the other hand, sometimes it's hillarious, and adds much needed background to the issue blogged about. Whenever bloggers write about the process that they come to as the blog, they should keep these thoughts in mind:
- If Metacommentary about your "lack of something to write about" takes up your whole blog, you had better be a magician with words, turning that metacommentary into a legendary tale of defeating boredom.
- If "lack of something to write about" turns into a blog about Meta-blogging that no one (except possibly your professor) will chuckle about, that's OK because she's the ONLY one who will ever read your blog.
- Always have three points. Two is too few. Three is a magical number and it rounds out the look of the blog.
Have a wonderful day Professor Bradley.
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