I enjoy blogs. No, really. Not too long ago my roommate and I were spending a particularly uninteresting evening at home discussing various blogs we read (pathetic, yes) when we had an extremely useless revelation: Ultimately, blogs are the hipper siblings of reality television.

I know. That sounds like a statement that only a Giant Cheeto-eating, glossy-eyed stoner would lip-flap to his couch potato friends. But hear me out. My theory is that the various forms of reality television multiply monthly because people enjoy watching "real" characters in "real" situations that they can relate too (or at least laugh at). As awful as a lot of these shows are, to some degree they are still windows into lives that further our understanding of the human experience.

Blogs are extremely similar. We get anecdotes, information and entertainment from what is ultimately the world's largest information station. Anyone can write anything about whatever they want. This ultimately gives us the greatest pool from which to choose the content that we actually want to read. It's like being able to skip all of the VH1 washed-up musicians looking for "love" and fast-forward directly to middle-aged nerds blowing crap up (Well, that's my personal preference). Find the people writing about things relevant to you. Enjoy.

The problem? The internet is becoming increasingly saturated with blogs that I couldn't care less about. Suddenly, I find myself sifting through more and more garbage to reach the great blogs. So to get to the point of this particular blog:

Stop blogging if you aren't really friggin' into it!

If you're not passionate about what you're doing or saying, it shows. And it's why this is only my third blog post here for Flux. I'm going to let you outsiders in on a secret: Flux is a class. Everyone gets a grade. And this year, getting a particularly good grade included writing a blog every week. 10 weeks: 10 blogs. But in an effort to save readers from sifting through blogs about how I stubbed my toe on a light stand or why I prefer Canon over Nikon, I decided to let my grade suffer and instead, contribute only a few well thought out posts that I thought people might actually be interested in.

Because as much as I'd like to do well in the class, I'd rather not be the next trashy reality B-list star of the internet.