"Good Writing is Good Writing"

This phrase, attributed to FGCU's own Professor Allen in a previous post, struck me as the most relevant summation of the written word in a blogospheric domain that is entirely all-inclusive. When topic choice is infinitely varied (and consequently irrelevant), it seems to be HOW you say it rather than WHAT you are saying that is most significant. Any idea or concept or fetish has at least one blog dedicated to its discussion. Of course, there are even blogs that discuss nothing at all. There is, however, a great divide between the inane and the brilliantly inane, and the canyon between courts a river of words and wordplay. The barren coast of "personal" personal blogs - that usually involve a girl named Emily counting and recounting how many mocha lattes she bought from Starbucks one day - unknowingly wave a white flag to the opposing shores of the "blogademic". So here we all are, writing at least four times a week on strangely disparate topics, all hoping to catch the eye of the professor, a fellow classmate, or the random websurfer who happens to share our interest and unwittingly stumbles across an amateur's thoughts. But it doesn't really matter. In today's world, it almost seems that a blog is a blog is a blog, and the only distinctions are drawn in the sand of eloquence. Good writing is good writing. So write well, and good luck.