The Bio Page

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Do you have a bio page on your journal? Do you look for them in the journals you read?

I just redid mine, with links to relevent entries.

What makes a good bio page? What makes a bad one?

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2001

Answers

I always look for them, and of course I don't have one, because I'm lazy and feel awkward about it. What do I say? How do I know what's relevant, and what's just going to be an overshare? Arg.

That said, good bio pages (like yours, non-naked Hannah), give you a bit of relevant background, introduce the major characters of the journal (WG's is another good example), and say, "here's what I'm going to talk about here. I probably won't talk about X, Y, or Z. Hope you like it."

I like reading what journallers think is relevant background, which is part of my whole nearly academic noseyness thing in general.

-- Anonymous, August 02, 2001


Aww, thanks, Sophie!

Actually, I should go edit that page -- my friend Cris told me the link to him is broken.

-- Anonymous, August 02, 2001


I always go straight to them in other sites. I just re-did mine a couple weeks back, but I'm already bored with it. I almost want to just dump the whole thing now that I am getting worried about some crazy-ass stalkerness.

wah.

-- Anonymous, August 02, 2001


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