have you noticed on the food blogs they do this a LOT. Picture after picture after picture. Subtle differences. Many of the bloggers that do this are selling themselves as food stylists and the pics are slightly different as far as the lighting or angle. It is very technical and they are using it as their advert for their work...it is not for the benefit of the person looking for a way to use up strawberries LOL.

I am assuming the deco bloggers are doing the same thing . There are a lot of bloggers out there that are trying to make a living with their design/reno skills. There are a couple that are selling their skills overtly and others that are getting free stuff from stores . You can see all the capital letters for the places they bought their stuff to do the reno.

I have noticed a lot of bloggers now have "shops" to buy their homemade things too. So I believe that is why they post so many pics. I may be wrong but that is what I am feeling when I look .

Mind you I look very little. I hate scrolling through all the food pics to get to the recipe...then it is made with something that I am never going to be able to get or way way too much work to create the still-life they have made. Mostly I never look at blogs anymore. c

I only look at food and gardening blogs. I'm turned off by those who take dozens of pics of the same thing. It's very narcissistic.

On the subject of blog pet peeves, a blog that used to be a favorite of mine seems to be filled more and more with photos of the writer mugging for the camera. It's all just so cutesy-cute that it kinda makes me want to hurl.
;-)

How does one find decorating blogs? Thanks.

they have no content!

digging...Google " Decorating Blogs" you will get a ton . Then when you go to one of them you look and see who they link to. It is never ending :)

I have so many blog peeves - so why do I keep reading them ??!!

I shouldn't be so b!tchy but just read this line this morning, "......This issue is chalk full of gorgeous interiors......" Really now. That kind of thing drives me nuts. I know blogs are 'homemade' but this shows why editors are necessary and if someone is making money from a blog then part of that should be paid to an editor!!!

AJ-
I think I know exactly which one you are talking about, and I tuned out a LONG time ago! Really, do I need to see pics of you modeling clothes? No thanks. I am starting to get really turned off by blogs in general and have not been following any lately.
I recently got a Nook for my birthday and have rediscovered my love of reading novels.
Ttodd- I think that was one of the reasons I started getting really turned off to blogs. Didn't think anyone else would be bothered by it- I just thought it came with the territory.

@dlm: advertising "chalk" paint?

More and more, I find myself just Googling images whenever I am need of decorative inspiration. Where I used to look forward to finding it in blogs, lately they seem like such an exercise in self-indulgence on the part of the writers. "My dear readers ..." Like the world considers you a true author and is just dying to know your innermost thoughts on a variety of subjects. (I feel I can say this without hypocrisy because I used to keep up with my own blog and it was very much all about me, me, me. I finally bored even myself half to death and stopped writing.)

The snob in me is very turned off by spelling and grammatical errors in a blog too. "Chalk full!" Oh, that is rich! ;-D

I don't follow, but I do browse blogs now and then. When I find one with a gazillion angles of the same scene I leave. My time is worth more than that. My guess is they think they're photography is so awesome that they need to share every single shot they brilliantly took.

And speaking of time, why oh why do so many bloggers think they can write? They go on and on about pretty much nothing. I'm with Deb, they need an editor. One that not only corrects misspellings and grammar but removes all unnecessary garbage. Guess they've never heard of KISS. Keep It Short Sweetie.

I have been tuning out to the ones that I regularly look at every Tuesday and Thursday. I'm just tired of scrolling through all of the same pictures. All of them literally the same. I have better uses of my time.

I think I may start to just google the images too. Good idea!

I checked out a few of them when blogging first became a big thing, but found them to be repetitious and self-indulgent. . . and they took up too much time.
I did happen onto one lifestyle-type blog by a gal up in Canada whose family gave up their life in the burbs to buy a big spread in the country where they home-schooled their kids, raised chickens, planted crops, etc. She seemed intelligent, normal, pleasant and her blog was kind of interesting. But it was really more of a temporary diversion for me, as I'm not into raising chickens, farming or homeschooling. I guess I'm just not a blog person.
Lynn

LOL Lynn!

Just read this intro on a blog:

MyBlessedLife.net is a delightful, inspiring blog committed to encouraging you to thrive in your home through diy home decor, seasonal crafts, delicious recipes and more! A beautiful home is more than meets the eye: ultimately, it's a matter of the heart. Won't you join me on this amazing journey?

I'm guessing humility is not her strong suit.

Here would be the intro to my blog:

"Mycrazyhecticblessedlife.net ....an inspiring blog that is a bird's eye view of what really happens when you DIY everything and nothing gets 100% finished, or where everywhere you turn, your heart is warmed by fisher price toys, dog hair, barbies all with the relaxing sounds of SpongeBob's laugh in the background. A beautiful home, that is only looking it's best for about 1 1/2 hrs every Thursday after the cleaning lady comes. Won't you join me on my insanity journey?

Sometimes you can count as many as 30 pictures in one post. Do not get that. Readers want to read and move on. Heck, sometimes they don't even read - you can tell from comments.

(I won't shamelessly plug Atticmag, but... )

javachik - it's not a reference to Chalk Paint - it was a failed attempt to use the phrase "Chock Full" meaning as full as can be, full to the top. I suppose, if the blogger is young, not well read, has never seen that phrase in written form and is only familiar with it by ear, the spelling error is understandable. But this particular blogger is old enough and presumably educated enough that she should have known better - and most CERTAINLY could have done a fast, down and diry Google search to just check her work. I even do that with things I write here, which is not to say that errors never slip by me. But when I have even the SLIGHTEST question in my mind, I check it out.

I love it, Polly!!!!

LOL At Polly. That's so more real life and you know what? If you wrote your blog like that? I'd read it.

Polly's blog hits home. You'd have to open up each time with "I should be completing or organizing something, yet here I am on the computer...."

Blogs, blogs, blogs.

I'll give a not so shameless plug to Atticmag. I know Jane F. Jane T. and Allison and when you visit AM you get an eyeball full of professional and relevant - not amateur and recycled.

I think we are not the norm because we like to write and read. (if I may be so bold and speak for everyone here on the GW. lol!)

Like dlm said it's not like I never have errors in my posts but I make an effort to look things up if it doesn't look right. At the very least spelling.

I suspect many color and design bloggers really don't like to write. What they like to do is talk about themselves and their talent - real or perceived. Speaking to their CRAFT is not the priority. Rather it's about self-promotion.

Many of them do not have enough expertise to fill a thimble and as a result their content is, well, kinda empty and dumb. So, the narrow message they have gets repeated over and over. Once they wear out their small stash of images and cogent points, they occasionally turn to images or content that they can lift from some place else.

If you are able to load your blog with quality content about your craft, not necessarily yourself, the content will be lifted and reused - I've seen it happen within a matter of hours. Citing sources is a lot like spellcheck - something more bloggers should be doing but they chose not to.

I have a blog and it bores me no end. I like to write tomes about color when the mood strikes. Passion gets lost in meeting a regimented blog posting schedule. Plus, when speaking to color, the "acceptable standard" of 300 words or less for a blog post is nothing!

Came up with the idea of podcasts about color/design - I like doing those and they have done really well on the blog and in iTunes. They're a ton of work to record and edit so I will never be able to keep the front page of the blog filled with fresh podcasts.

Can't say I understand all the blogs out there or the act of blogging per se. Never clicked with me as far as what's the point. The bloggers who view their blog as an open journal of sorts -- I get that. Otherwise, I struggle with most things blogosphere.

A blog such as Polly suggested would be so refreshing! :-D Too many bloggers try too hard to be "Mrs. Perfect Homemaker" and it gets a bit tiresome. Most of us have BTDT with busy lifestyles and we know how it goes. However blogs are easy to ignore and I have tons bookmarked that I no longer look at.

I also find multiple similar pics annoying as well as bad grammar and spelling!

The only blog I pay attention to on a regular basis is Layla's, "The Lettered Cottage." I do find her and her DH quite inspiring.

Polly 929 what a hoot!
I use my blog mostly to record projects. I've noticed that even tho I post less, maybe once or twice/month I keep getting a small trickle increase in followers. But with garden web and now face book which I don't use that mucheither, its almost too much.
Kathy

Thank you, funcolors. I always enjoying reading/hearing you explain colors, etc.

I feel left out, I don't read blogs. If I want to decorate I go to Houzz and come here. I'm so in the past.

Funcolors - a podcast would be wonderful!!!! Every morning DH is busy downloading podcasts before work. He confiscated my MP3 player.

I've pretty much stopped looking at many blogs since I posted this thread.

ttodd - was surprised by this niche. Like most everything, I had not one fat clue about it. Just jumped in and did it.

But, yeah, some of the podcasts are 35 - 40 minutes long and the feedback has been (on select topics) that it wasn't long enough. Color me gobsmacked by that one.

I like recording and producing podcasts I'm not a listener, however. Amazed by how many people do the audio books, podcasts, etc. It's a huge industry. Who knew?

Looking at doing some videos next - length is two to three minutes and it looks like fun. Whatever can be done to avoid writing a *normal* blog post, I'm in. :)