To Blog or Not To Blog

[Infernal Shade]

Since I purchased my domain, I've been plagued with the question of blogging. It isn't the technical aspect of blogging that brings doubt, since I've found blogging software to generally be extremely intuitive (especially WordPress). It's been more of an issue of content.

Everytime I get that warm, fuzzy feeling in my tummy because I've just started a new blog, it quickly diminishes as I realize that I'm not bringing anything new to the table. Why post news headlines that have already been posted by thousands of other web sites? "Because then you can express your view on the issue." All I have to say to that response is... so. Most of the larger news sites these days have a comment system built-in. So then I think about creating a blog to document my daily adventures. Again, I have to ask why? Not only do I not lead the most exciting lifestyle, but most blogs I've read with this type of format inevitably turn negative. The only positive aspect of creating my own blog is just that...it's mine.

I applaud the bloggers of the world that manage to maintain informative and entertaining blogs. But maybe this craze just isn't for me. I think some of the best blogs are actually ones that individuals set up for a small group of friends or family members.

 

[xLostx]

If you're emo, then blog away. other than that, it's gay imo.

 

[Adabiviak]

I use a blog (Wordpress) and a bulletin board (Phpbb) at work for an internal Intranet for my crew (~20 techs). It's great, but all the content is extremely relative to these people's daily work. A personal blog for a public audience - you've got to have something special if you want it to sell.

 

[CyberPitz]

the only "blog" thing i use was xanga...but that was mearly a venting thing

 

[JellyWorld]

I don't see any point in blogging unless you have a really interesting life, which if we had we wouldn't be posting here.

 

[chu]

I don't see any point in blogging unless you have a really interesting life, which if we had we wouldn't be posting here.

Agreed, unless your a hemopheliac that lives in a house made of thumbtacks, then you might have a story.

 

[Dekstar]

Agreed, unless your a hemopheliac that lives in a house made of thumbtacks, then you might have a story.

Damn! One off!

 

[TheSomeone]

I blog to improve my writing.

 

[Raziaar]

Use a word other than blog and I wont have to beat your ass


Damn, I hate that word.

Blog... <clenches his fist until his knuckles go white>

 

[S.L.]

I blog on my own website, cus most of those blogging websites are gay.

 

[Qonfused]

Use a word other than blog and I wont have to beat your ass


Damn, I hate that word.

Blog... <clenches his fist until his knuckles go white>

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Call me when you get out of the hospital for your aneurysm so I know how you're doing.

 

[SimonomiS]

Obligatory Maddox Link

Don't bother if you don't have a certain "selling point" or something interesting that you document. People need something new and interesting to read, not your day-to-day lifestyle.

 

[IonizeMyAtoms]

I only use a livejournal because I'm a journalist student. I don't post news or anything, just personal stuff because it keeps me in writing mode even when I have nothing to write for my school paper or a magazine I sometimes write for

 

[IonizeMyAtoms]

PS. that Maddox article is retardedly terrible and unfunny
"Derrrr, I'll make up words and make fun of them!"

 

[Sulkdodds]

Don't blog sez I unless you have something really interesting to say, all the time.

 

[IonizeMyAtoms]

See, I never have anything interesting to say, but I don't write it for other people to read. It's for me only, although I don't care if anyone reads it, and it's a good way to stay in touch with people without sending emails all the time.

 

[SimonomiS]

I always considered journals or diaries to be a personal book, having it as an actual book always seemed to give it more embodiment and meaning to me, but why people want to upload and share to the world their innermost thoughts and feelings, I've no idea.

Except attention.

 

[IonizeMyAtoms]

I always considered journals or diaries to be a personal book, having it as an actual book always seemed to give it more embodiment and meaning to me, but why people want to upload and share to the world their innermost thoughts and feelings, I've no idea.

Except attention.

I'd agree with you if I maybe had a link in my sig or something. But I have to do a lot of writing in notebooks, and at the end of the day, I want to keep a journal but don't want to have to write it by hand. So a LiveJournal is pefect for me.
And it's not like I post pictures of half my head, looking inconspicuously off to the side somewhere, or post terrible angsty poems. It's just something to keep me writing

 

[Infernal Shade]

I decided to start another one on my own web site. I kind of stashed it away in a directory that isn't advertised anywhere else on the site, since it's more of a travel journal than anything. If someone stumbles across it and finds it interesting, that's great. If not, that's ok too. It's more for me, anyway.