Metablogging

My first few posts I wrote before I told anyone that I was going to start blogging. At the time I had some allusions about writing and not telling anyone in the hopes that people would find me stumbling about on their own. After a couple of weeks worth of posts, I decided to discard that strategy and tell some of my friends. At that point the nature of the content of my blog has subconsciously changed. I'm metablogging.

One of the key concepts for a magic player is the metagame. The idea behind the metagame is that you choose your deck strategy of winning based on the expected field that you'll be playing. In magic, if you know that your deck is good against everything except for one thing that you don't expect to see at a tournament, then it is a good choice. A simple example would be playing paper against an opponent who is known to usually use rock.

Metablogging is the act of blogging to cater to your audience. If you are a conservative, railing against the homosexual bias of the media will play well to your audience. Calling the president an idiot will both be truthful and play to the Democrats who read your blog (see I know my audience). A lot of it may be the truth of how you feel, but that you know that you are being read changes the content of what you write in the same way that yelling "Fire" is fine when you are the captain of a submarine ordering the deployment of a torpedo and not when you are in a crowded theater.