First Name Basis

Carole Brown from Chicago, Illinois is writing and I think that judging from the blogs content it’s more of an objective as opposed to something personal for her, by just reading the blog itself I believe her to be quite a professional woman. Link to blog here http://ctachair.blogspot.com/


The content of the blog itself does not interest me in the slightest, maybe because I have no interest in the CTA Board, maybe it’s because I don’t live in the U.S and this is completely irrelevant to me. I would label the blog as ‘boring and dull’ in my opinion but I can’t deny that this is a unique idea to use a blog to answer the questions of the readers etc. Admittedly, because I consider blogs to be a very casual form of documentation or communication I have found this blog a bit alienating because of the proficient content.


Judging by the post dates, she seems to update roughly once a month; but the time of the month varies from the beginning to the end. I expect another post soon however.


I’m thinking that because of the nature of this blog and it being much more factual in its objective she tends to suppress her opinions on matters which I agree is acceptable because of her job but to me it makes it even more of a dull read. Opinions are what get my attention and so maybe it’s just me but even if I was interested the Chicago Transit Board I think this information would be better and more effective if delivered in a newsletter/e-mail form, as that way I would not have to go and find it manually and may be more likely to take notice and read it.


Carole (we’re on a first name basis now) focuses primarily on what I can only deduce to be information about the funding situation of the CTA, to me however it seems to be a lot of jargon which I care little about.


In terms of me writing this, I have held some form of online journal before and still do even though my updates are sporadic and I’m fairly comfortable writing to an ‘invisible audience’ even though I will see most of you on a 3 out 7 daily basis at least. I prefer to right about things that I feel passionate about, as you will come to see later on; otherwise my input seems very forced and factual.


Til next time.