Blog your way to love

Trevor Davis

Apparently blogging is on the way out, it's no longer cool and people can't be bothered anymore. The BBC unveiled some research recently by Gartner, which showed that some 200 million bloggers are no longer writing online. "Perfect," I told my friend one afternoon. "Blogging is now officially the way to a woman's heart." He looked at me briefly before asking me how exactly I'd worked that out. He pointed to the fact that 100 million bloggers still actively weep for all to see on the web and that it was by no means a guaranteed winner. Resorting to measures like this? Why not try Online Dating, to find yourself a partner instead? UK Net Guide's Dating Search will search dating sites for of singles that match you now!

I disagree completely; I think with a little bit of (self) publicity I could create the male version of Bridget Jones's Diary on the internet. When people read it, they'll immediately think that I'm a well and truly romantic individual, who probably writes poetry and goes to theatre and other boring stuff like that. Blogging is a piece of cake, there a various sites out there that will give you some free web space and you can just blog away, rant about anything safe in the knowledge that only MI5 are reading it.

However, I wanted to make mine somewhat different. Message boards are frequented quite a lot so I thought I'd stick a link up on a few popular ones and get people to visit my blog. Then, before you know it, the word will spread. People will be talking about the TrevBlog, the Blogfather and the man who just needs the love of a good woman. I'll be drinking too much wine, moaning that I can't find the right person. All the while what I'm actually doing is watching the football and not giving a monkeys about any of that stuff.

I managed to find a blogging site that I thought looked professional and gave you your own mini website option. I set about filling in the personal information and then made it look smart by adding colours and my favourite books, that kind of thing. You can add signatures to your blog entries and people can then reply and say stuff back to you. I'm not overtly political, so I thought I'd stay away from arguing about Middle Eastern diplomacy, but hopefully people would reply nevertheless.

So, I poured myself a glass of wine and sat down with the laptop. I put the footie on, just for a bit of inspiration and then stared at my blog. Newcastle were beating Arsenal on the box, the Magpies' centre back had bundled in a botched corner and it was all getting quite exciting, but it was distracting me, so I turned the TV off. Once again I stared at my blog, I tapped out the date and what colour tie I was wearing. Then I stopped. I had absolutely nothing to say, what was all this blogging nonsense? Who cares about this nonsensical rubbish that no one reads? Lunacy! I put the football back on, make that 201 million people who no longer blog.