Blogging- A Day in the Life of Molly Blogger

In my quest to locate my faerie dust, I spotted the dandiest English garden; no delectable flowers to relax in this time o' year, but the statuary was simply incredible! While resting, I ran into someone I know only as Molly. We chatted for a bit, and she educated me in the complex story of Blogs. She even showed me one, but it was too busy and was a tad bit overwhelming. Too many mortals! The jist of Molly's blog seems to be personal development mixed with journal type entries. She says she is working to become more proficient with web development, but still keep things on the lighter side. I'm not sure whether she succeeds in the personal development, but from the number of beings that stop in to visit I'd say she succeeds in the entertainment department. If I were so inclined, I'd try to build more faerie friendly web sites. I could be wrong - that's just my opinion.

Molly posts different things to encourage reader participation, through feedback. On friday, 20 January, she encouraged/posed a question to her readership asking what titles they could come up with for computer books they would buy or read. Some of the titles are: CSS Makes You Attractive; The code speaks for itself - clean, semantic, structural markup; Agile web design - from mockup to live site with XHTML/CSS; Tomorrow’s web development…today.

These titles portray the difficulties encountered by computer geeks trying to keep on top of the everchanging world of HTML/XHTML, and mastering cascading style sheets. Both which I find are equally challenging, but what do I know? I'm just a fairy who's lost her dust, and a few marbles too.

Molly posts things that she is involved with, as well as things of general interest. For example, she posted a letter her brother recived regarding an old Corningware electric percolator he was trying to restore. I was impressed by the letter (which is posted in its entirety), not only with the extent of their customer service (which I've heard is great), but mostly with the thought they put into the text of the letter. As pointed out in the thread this is not your ordinary form letter - the company goes above and beyond the call of duty; they put a great deal of time and resources into researching the manufacturing date, and also made a point to tell him the part he played in redesigning and improving their current products One also gets the feeling that the company truly cares about their customers; this is illustrated in the way the company replaced the pot with "gifts of the designer glass coffee press" among several other items, to ensure continuing customer satisfaction and loyalty - two items that are rare these days. Through this posting on Molly's website, Corningware has probably reinforced, if not increased, their following of loyal customers.
Her blog is worth reading because it challenges the reader to think, and brings to the audience new developments in the world of computer/web design. She gears her site around computers and the associated jobs in the computer world, but doesn't alienate other readers because she discusses other topics like music, household products (corningware), and the ideal world aka Utopia. This blog/journal is geared more toward the reader than the author, illustrated by her leading questions - intended to draw the reader into the discussion. For example: "@MEDIA IS BAAAACK . . . The London event that rocked the U.K. and Europe last summer is on for June 15-16. And this time it’s bigger, with two tracks, and an all-star lineup of speakers.
Lots of familiar faces from across the pond will be there, including Dan “Simplebits” Cederholm, Tantek “Microformats” Çelik, Eric “Pope” Meyer, Dave “Zen” Shea and myself. The coolest part is that everyone is talking about very creative and diverse topics - check out the terrific content."

As the typical blogger, she includes a mulitude of links embedded within her text. As Blood explains, "The link is the fundamental attribute of the Web, and it is the single most important thing that distinguishes weblogging from traditional forms of publishing...."It is the link that gives their credibility by creating a transparency that is impossible in any other mediums. It is the link in which weblogs exist."