What makes a good blog good?

I really don’t know, but I do know that I’ve been trying to be a bit more prolific in my posts this year, and not let quite so much time go by between updates. I really want my reader(s) to get their money’s worth, you know? Trying to be more forward looking, or at least looking at the here and now, with occasional glances in the rear-view mirror at past people, places and events.

One thing I am deliberately trying to avoid is becoming essentially a republisher of second hand news stories just for the sake of filling up space here on the blog. My own experience is I personally lose interest in such blogs very quickly – if I want to read the local police blotter, I will. Sure, I could syndicate feeds from may other sites into the content here, but that really isn’t being fair to my readers or to the original site.

So, what makes a good blog good? What is of most interest to me and makes me want to come back to a blog again and again? It is those blogs that focus on the real day in the life activities of the blog host; bits of info about what is going on directly in the blogger’s world and going through the blogger’s mind; providing insight into the ordinary lives of other ordinary people with whom I share common interests. Maybe my blog isn’t the most exciting or chock-full of the latest from TMZ or smokinggun but at least it’s about me and my world.

Anyway, it’s been a long week at work, and I’m pretty darned tired, so I’ll be heading off to bed in a few. To those blggers out there like quodlibetic, chris, girlyunderwear: thanks, you all give me a lot of food for thought. Thanks for sharing.