limited creativity?
During my search for images that fit on my page I found this interesting picture.
It shows a page of a personal diary. It was a diary that a girl wrote for herself. Additionally her friends wrote something in it.
(image taken from flickr.com by Jill)
The discussion below the picture was about the “limited creative possibilities” that you have with weblogs. Everybody can write, and everybody can design their page to a certain degree with their style, but characteristics like personal handwriting or drawings will very rarely occur on a webpage. This is a big disadvantage for the weblog.
Of course it is possible to insert personal drawings to your weblog, but it takes time and is certainly not the same as the page of a book. There are disadvantages and advantages on both sides, the image just made me feel a little bit sad. It seems to be made with more love. This is certainly not true, because there are many people investing the same effort and love into their blogs. The good thing is that blogs exist to reach as many people as possible- this is what a non-virtual diary can’t achieve. I just wanted to post it because I never thought about this point of view.
