[blogfocus tuesday] leaner, meaner and brutally honest

Why is this blogger on the beach of Dunkirk and who are the people in the background?

Let’s face it - the old blogfocus had become strained. A couple of cut and pasted lines from each of 50+ bloggers does not an interesting article make and clearly it was time to either revamp or die. Here’s the revamped 10 point plan:

1] pour a glenfiddich
2] put on jj cale
3] put a printed list of the blogroll on the coffee table
4] flick tiddlywinks at the list until 17 names are hit
5] pour another glenfiddich
6] raid those 17 sites for some of their best posts
7] write brutally honest opinions about the 17 for an hour and a half
8] pour another glenfiddich
9] load and publish with minimal links
10] dream of the lady I was with three hours ago

So here we go, ladies and gentlemen and if you escaped this time, you’ll be got at next Saturday:

1] An A-blogger if ever there was one, The Tin Drummer has this cursed no-comments policy which I feel detracts from the universal blog-purpose and yet he may be right. Perhaps experience dictates that comments are a mere distraction. Who knows? The best bloggers have their fingers on the pulse, if we might put it that way and TTD does this to perfection, the measure of his standing in the blogosphere being the types of people who link to him in their posts [for example Tim Worstall]. Here he addresses the question of swearing [hope DK and Mr E have read this one] in his typical self-effacing way:

Laban Tall has a post up introducing this blog, and is right about the swearing and need to reduce Devil-post intake. The thing is this: swearing is actually very difficult to do properly, and is usually best left to the experts. I learned everything I know about swearing from Viz, but I haven't really absorbed the lessons well. Good swearing is borne of anger but executed coldly with precision, rhythm and vivid imagery. Poor swearing is a bunch of rude words thrown together. So I ought to leave it alone.

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