I think the point I was trying to make was that being too consistent can get boring for the reader. I’ve stopped reading blogs because it was like, “Oh look, here’s another post from ___ about ___. *yawn*” In industries that pride themselves on “breaking the rules” and making it a point to stand out from the crowd and this-is-how-you-do-it, I’m very surprised at how conformist some people are at displaying their nonconformity. And many are completely oblivious to this paradox.

What seems like irrelevancy at first is what keeps my attention as a reader. I’m a big fan of taking a seemingly irrelevant topic and displaying how it relates to the subject at hand. My senior project in com theory I used Disney’s The Little Mermaid to display McGregor’s management theories X and Y, and also Mead & Blumer’s theory of symbolic interactionism. (If you want to know how I did it, I’ll be more than happy to share.)

My current site I put up as a temporary outpost bridging personal & professional only until I got my “official” professional one finished. My long-standing credo is “Never put anything online you wouldn’t want your mother to see,” whether that’s professionally or personally, it doesn’t matter. Even though I consider my current site a sort of gray-area limbo, I’m still mindful of that and I literally showed it to my mom for self-assurance.

Her only complaint?

That it contains the word “damn.” *sigh*