Blog This!

By: Carol Silva

So just about every 2 weeks - we here at News 12 have the honor of "blogging" for you - our thoughts - story ideas, etc.

Now, I'm still not used to spilling my guts in a blog. Honestly, I got some pretty cute pink diaries - keys included - when I was 10 or 11.  And I couldn't even blog - I mean "journal" or "Dear Diary" to myself.

About the best running commentary I've ever kept was during the first few years of my children's lives. I actually journaled (but then again, I'd do anything for those kids who are now 14-1/2 and Sweet 16.) I wrote about it all. The months of my pregnancies. Their arrival in this world, their earliest gold medal accomplishments. You know - the first spit up, the first bowl of spaghetti on the head, their first steps. Those sorts of things. (Actually, I take their journals out the night before their birthday every single year - and I read portions of their story to them. It's a great family tradition.)

But I'm not going to do that here. Nope. My job here is to blog for YOU! But sometimes I come up dry. So this time I thought I'd find out what other bloggers are doing in cyberspace. 

Here are a few of the more interesting blogs I've run across:

I like Karen Cheng. She writes about girl things - well I guess they're women things. Family, home, fashion, working, etc. I like Karen, even though today's blog is about a cow balloon. No kidding.

I mean people will write about/read about anything. The Ask Sister Mary Martha blog grabbed my attention, because I'm a veteran of LI's Catholic schools. On the good Sister's home page today, the question, "Should the beautiful nun contest have a deadline?" (Did you hear about the Italian priest, holding a cyber beauty "Beautiful Nun Contest" pagaent, to prove that nuns are not all the dowdy stereotypes?)

Among the big celebrity blogs, Commack's own Rosie O'Donnell's! She's got kids crafts, links to other blogs, and today, a rant about Sarah Palin is on Rosie's homepage. And speaking of celebrities, Perez Hilton's website is so popular, he's called the cyber bloggerazzi!

And how weird do they get? Check the official Freakin Weird Blog. Today's take - the cemetery BBQ. The Unique Weird Blog Spot actually has some cute baby pictures.

Just search "blogs" and you'll find blogs from our Presidential candidates, anti-candidates, religious leaders, psychics, athletes, video gamers, sports parents, nutritionists, kids, rock and rollers, and some real freaks!

Incredibly, you can enter or vote for the best of blogs, in the annual Bloggers Choice Awards!

And if you want to start to write your own blog, so your loved ones - dear but not so near - can read about you daily, try this: Suggestions for Blog Subjects!