Comments on: Has blogging lost its soul?

By: Palabuzz

Palabuzz — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:27:01 +0000

Some are making money from blogging but we have to remember that most of them are already successful before they are making money from blogging. so it would be wise to supplement your blogging from your job or your business.

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By: LisaNewton

LisaNewton — Thu, 14 May 2009 02:16:26 +0000

I think at the heart and soul of blogging is passion. Passion for what you write, passion for your readers, and passion for other blogs that feel just as you do about your blog.

The soulless bloggers you refer to don’t have passion, and because of that, I think their lives as “bloggers” will be short lived. Or at least I hope so…………..:)

Thank you for the thoughtprovoking post!!

By: Paulubiadas

Paulubiadas — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:33:53 +0000

Speaking of authentic, most of the topics that are seen on blogs are been post before. What the gurus are doing is that they are talking about there personal experience with each topic they are writing but I could never call in authenti since it has been rewritten a hundred of times before.

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By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:23:10 +0000

Janet, I do get what you are saying. My comment isn’t about blame either, though. I believe that at the heart of blogging, books, e-mails, letters, magazines…whatever..is the the deep desire we have as human beings to communicate with each other. And we use every medium of communication for connection as well as to gain advantage. It’s human nature. It’s up to us to become educated and aware about polluting practices everywhere.

By: Janet Green

Janet Green — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:37:59 +0000

Kate, you really got me thinking about other media and how this phenomenon has occurred within them, and certainly the parallels you mention are right on target. I think what I was going for here was not so much a "blame others" message, but more of a "hey let's not forget the roots of this thing." Rachel, your point about the low barrier of entry is well taken. Couple that with the claims of "quick and easy," and it all begins to remind me of that period when desktop publishing was becoming popular - I'm quite sure that actual trained production artists were aghast at the number and quality of people who thought they could design a brochure just because they had Microsoft Publisher on their new computer. Janet Green’s last blog post..Welcome, Blogopolis Blueprint Readers!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:32:15 +0000

Nice post Janet.

It seems like every day another “how to make money blogging” site is springing up offering tips on how to write useless, spammy content and monetize by selling the idea to start endless websites advertising how to make money blogging.

Luckily though there are also a number of quality sites coming up that are offering great content (at a slower rate). The bloggers who I admire the most (and who seem the most successful) are the ones who, as you say, are authentic, altruistic and generous. And that’s what we should strive for.

Kate is right, there is junk in every medium, but the low barrier to entry for blogging is making it even easier than for other mediums.

We just need to learn how to sift through the crud.

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:26:10 +0000

I don’t think blogging is so very different from any other media. There’s a lot of junk mail, a lot of books written just to sell more books and a lot of magazine articles written to sell more magazines…or whatever. It’s the nature of our world. Consumerism. It is up to us to sort through the junk and get to the heart. And we don’t need to blame others for doing it the other way, but we don’t have to read them either.

By: Janet Green

Janet Green — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:04:59 +0000

Janice, you’re precisely right – so many want to get right to the money and forget that there’s a path to it. Here’s the rub: a person who thinks, “I want to get paid for blogging” may step into a well-established site about professional blogging and think, “Wow, look at all the money this person is making – I’ll just follow their formula and make that money too!” But they forget that someone had to WRITE all that content, and that it represents years of work, of trial and error, and of thoughtfully engaging (and helping promote) readers.

By the way, the bead mosaics you pictured on your website were stunning – I’ve bookmarked your site for evening reading

Marc, I do think that yes, sometimes it takes some way-finding for a person to realize that quality trumps quantity when it comes to blogging, but generally if they have good intentions when they start out then they learn that fairly quickly. I try to keep a very broad definition of what constitutes “quality,” because I recognize I am not always (or even often) the target market. Unfortunately, I would say that the one real trend I notice right now is that the “scraper blogs” are becoming more prevalent. They will usually include a link back to my site, as a reward I suppose for having stolen my content, but I would rather have a link from a real blogger because something I wrote resonated with them and they felt compelled to add to my thoughts or even take the opposite viewpoint.

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