As a new convert to the blogging revolution, I am having some fun adjusting to this online culture of people who love nothing more than having their thoughts, feelings, and judgements posted online for, potentially, the worl to see. It's a fascinating world of people spreading the seed of knowledge. The question still remains, how many people are actually interested in all of these mindless babbling's that travel through the digital ethers of the Internet.
I would say that the responsibility is on the blogger to be offering content that people may actually find valuable. Whether it is the way you write, the sources you cite, or the place you do it, I would suggest to formulate at least two of those three options. I unfortunately rarely have the patience for citations, so I assume I can rely on the other two options. I would only change my perspective when enough feedback forces me to adapt.
Although my time on the blogoshpere is short at best, I am learning a lot of valuable ways to get that extra exposure that is needed to become a valuable resource for some people.
For those of you out there looking for some practice in article writing, you should definitely look into a web site called Helium.com. Its free to join, they have a great interface, and the articles you post have the possibility to be published for profit. A great learning tool for anyone. For the rest of you, I hope you find blogs useful, rather than just signs pointing at the fact that most people don't care about spelling and grammar.
2 comments:
I am also new to the babbling world of blogging, and what I like about it is that you don't HAVE to provide valuable information and it doesn't matter if nobody cares what you're saying.
My favourite thing about blogging is that you can write whatever you feel like at the time and send it out into the ether. The point in my (inexperienced, it must be admitted) opinion, is that you've written something. Comments and feedback are an added bonus.
Of course, one could also argue that those of us, like myself, who do write blogs that offer no valuable information, are just cyberspace polluters, but until I start publishing a porn blog written entirely in pig latin, I'll simply deny that such a label could ever apply to yours truly :)
Hello again, Rob.
Thanks for visiting my non-valuable-info-providing-blog to reply to this earlier comment.
I'm a journalist by profession, so I understand your frustration as a writer at people that litter their blogs with bad spelling and grammar, and whose point seems merely to be to get as many ad banners as possible onto their page.
I usually feel like I'm littering the screen with random thoughts that nobody will want to read, but I still find it less offensive than poor English. Such a snob I am!
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