Sorry but I am dragging my soap box out again. It hasn't come out in a while and it needs an airing.
I spent about 9 months reading blogs, mostly in the design world before venturing out in the blogsphere with my own, almost a year ago. I had mainly read design blogs as they were vastly different from what I do on a daily basis so therefore an escape but also something that I've always loved. When younger I dreamed of going to the Inchbald School of Interior Design in London until I found out how much the tuition was, literally an arm and a two legs. There was also an intimidation to write a blog solely based on writing as I am not a trained writer and as you can see from "my lengthy hiatus" I don't have that writing muscle honed.
So there was one blog in particular that had everything I loved re. design - mid Century (or Middle Century as one of my sister's friends refers to it as), op art, vintage, flea market finds etc. Without knowing it, she had inspired to me to start a blog. Of course I'm the dweeby perfectionist who bought several books on how to write a blog (I read the first chapter of one and then was over that). So I plucked up the courage to send her an email basically thank her for being a design blog pioneer and an inspiration to me. I didn't feel it was over-stalkerish, just honest. It didn't say "please read my blog and post my link on yours"....
To this day I have heard nothing, nada, zip...not even a quick "thanks so much"-that was last August so am not holding my breath. I must be honest, in the last 6 months or so I have veered away from my some of my daily-read design blogs as have found a few to be a little ostentatious. One "old" one did catch my eye recently, as she had just traveled to where I grew up. Lovely photos were posted on her blog and she'd written about her trip there. It brought back memories and I was propelled to email her (who knows why as I should have learnt by now)- just a quick email of gratitude, letting her know that her photos were lovely, nothing overly gushy or freakish.
That was about 3 weeks ago, again nothing, NOT A PEEP and she's one of those bloggers who continually posts gushy thanks to her readers and how grateful she is that they stop by. Well I won't be stopping by again and please bear in mind these are not huge design blogs with an enormous amount of followers. I'm sure to some this all sounds a bit pedantic and brattish, and in the grand scheme of things I won't be losing sleep but I do find it a little rude. Am I alone in thinking that these bloggers are a little clueless?
