Recently, some discussion has been raised as to why blogs “aren’t gonna work”, where for example the Chicago Tribune speaks about it as if it’s a dying concept — at least as a business model. I wondered myself about the reasons why I went through the trouble, so to say, of maintaining a blog, and I think these people are missing the point.
While some blogs are out there for a higher purpose, most blogs are there simply to fill that need to express oneself, to tell things one wouldn’t normally be able to tell without things becoming way too serious and time consuming. So instead, I write what I feel like writing, and you ignore or you read, at your leisure, and I won’t hate you for ignoring anything or everything I write. That I think is why there are blogs. To fill that desire to express more elaborate thoughts without the traditional restrictions of environment or theme or setting or community.
So… fuck you very much, Chicago Tribune, but I think noone gives a shit what you nor Gallup says. I’m not blogging because I think I have something important to say, I’m blogging because it is a way for me to show my thoughts to the people who know me, and in turn, it is a way for me to see what their thoughts are. Whether blogs are valid business models or not is for you money-obsessed whores to find out.
Tuesday, 28. February 2006
Reading the Chicago Tribune article could only make me marvel at the sheer ignorance displayed. It made me think of all the old writings of how we’d never get to the moon, or how T.V. would never replace radio shows. Get real. There is a standard for embracing of new technology. It took many many years before intenet use became mainstream, it takes a long time for each new advancement. People need to first learn about it, then understand it, then be willing to try it. It’s not an overnight result to instigate change.
The entire Web 2.0 concept (to use the catch phrase for the year) is more social networking. Social networking has exploded in the last few years, and will only continue to do so. Right now, bloggers are still a niche community. But there are bloggers out there making enough money to only blog, others making enough to only work part-time.
The thing in the article that made me laugh the most was this:
I couldn’t help but think… “You know, if you were using blogging software to post this article, people could just comment immediately.”