Stories That Don’t Much Interest Me
24th August 2025
The New Neo (whose blog is highly recommended)
One of the main tasks of a blogger is deciding what topics to cover. It’s not as simple as it may seem.
Sometimes there are stories so huge they cry out for coverage, even if everyone else is writing about the same thing. Sometimes there’s just a quirky idiosyncratic topic that strikes my fancy. Sometimes I choose a story to which I think I can bring an unusual angle. Certain themes keep attracting me, although they aren’t current, such as ballet.
I’m only one person here, so I can’t do what Instapundit or RedState or other group blogs do, which is to cover all the stories or most of them, and keep churning out many posts each day. What I usually end up doing is writing about what most interests me, and what I think might interest my readers. Sometimes I guess right and sometimes I guess wrong.
I am in the same position, and follow more-or-less the same policies. I don’t break news; if the news is big enough, people will find out. I focus on things I find interesting (whether you do or not), and things that I believe my followers ought to know. That results in a pretty eclectic mix, as you may have noticed. The comment section isn’t very active, nor do I care very much that it is not; I write this stuff to get it off my chest rather than to attract ‘engagement’. My core audience are my family and friends; others a welcome to tag along for the ride.