What is blogging now?

What is blogging now? When I first started back in 2001 it was just a way to log your daily lives or moan about something that effects you… You had big company workers writing up about how their company sucked, people trying to work out their own issues… These days its turned into a way for people to claim how much money they make and write up paid reviews. Blogging has lost its personality and is now just turning into the old websites we had crammed down our necks.

Can you really tell me the difference between a website and a blog now? You could have a few years ago but now… You will be hard pushed to look up on a blog directory and not have the biggest “blogs” be marketing type or some form of sales type website.

I only read a few blogs now, mainly because no one apart from a few really do blog, you see no real personality behind the blog apart from someone rubbing their hands together trying to find some sneaky way of getting some extra dollars out of you.

The reason I was wondering is this I just checked my RSS reader and went through all my feeds and cleaned out everything that sucked… I am now down to only 4 feeds!

1. One of them is a clasic (PostSecret) which is all about real blogging (With pics).
2. The other is a blog I found around a year ago and has one of the biggest real personalitys around (Rebellious Arab Girl ®).
3. The other is a blog I sadly need to really catch up on Its called I am You and was one of my fave reads a quite a few months back… I really need to go back and atch up (Like I do with Rebellios)
4. The next is a blogger/Auther/Comic Aurther (Neil Gaiman’s Journal) who always manages to amaze me. He has no real need to blog but does it for the sole reason of what Blogging is meant to be about… Expressing yourself.

I did have a lot of feeds from very good authers… Sadly most have now closed or just died Did they die from just personal reasons? Maybe… But I also think its because these real blogs get less exposure and no real way to find blogs to connect too.
Yes you have many sites such as BlogCatalog and Entrecard to use… But they get flooded with spam and end up being run with the “Blog v2″ spam sites and just old fasioned websites but with a blog identity.

So this is just something for everyone to think about:

Are you really running a blog? (Blog = Web Log)

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Posted by : Lee Doyle
Posted on : Sep 23 2008
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4 Responses to “What is blogging now?”

1. Rebellious Arab Girl Says:
   September 23rd, 2008 at 8:13 pm

   I agree with you 100%! You took the words right out of my mouth. I just feel that you can attract visitors to a real blog only when they write something intelligent and personal. That’s the definition of a true blog. However, many of the known money making bloggers, as in make money from blogging, are only providing the public with obvious, and repetitive insight of how to make money. Moreover, many known personal bloggers are slanting towards that direction of expressively telling the world how much they make out of their site every single day, and ways to do it just like them. I make money blogging, I will not deny that, but I did not follow any person’s advice because it is all theory and sometimes luck.

   All I want to reiterate is that a true blogger must write something that is not researched, not publicly claimed, and has some intelligent thought and merit that make the reader say, “wow.. someone else feels the same way as I do. I am not the only one.”

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2. Lee Doyle Says:
   September 23rd, 2008 at 8:37 pm

   @Rebellious Arab Girl -

   What blogging needs is a real Blogging site which is modded to keep those sites out. We also need another name for these non-blogging types.

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3. Anneleen Says:
   September 24th, 2008 at 8:47 pm

   I also agree with you: blogging has lost its personality. There are more and more blogs out there who don’t write about personal stuff and I think it’s a shame. I like reading people’s blogs to see how they think, about what they think, what their problems are, how they change, etc.

   In answer to your question “Are you running a blog?”, my answer would be yes. I don’t blog to make money. I blog because I can get everything off my chest that way. I don’t have many readers, but I don’t really care. I’ll keep on blogging as long as I feel the need to write down my thoughts..

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4. Lee Doyle Says:
   September 24th, 2008 at 8:53 pm

   @Anneleen -
   Thanks Anneleen for your reply.

   It is a shame that we are seeing so many non-real-blogs and it is diluting the whole blogging scene. The word BLOG will no longer mean what it originally did. It will just be another word for Website.

   Thanks again

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