There are very few people I would call bloggers. Most of those who say they are bloggers are a hybrid of blog and splog. A blogger, to me, is still someone using weblog software to create art, write a journal or some combination of those on a personal level.
The traffic and readers are a fun side effect, not the point of the whole thing. I have seen many so called bloggers who are obsessed with seo and monetizing to the point where the blog content has been left to rot or is stolen from others. I'd be glad to see blogging be left to fall back to what it began as, something fun and creative.
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Do You Call Yourself a Blogger?
This is what I wrote as a comment in the Problogger post and comments about what a blogger is and why it is not beneficial to call yourself a blogger if you are running it as a business.
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Hmmm. I suppose I am a combination. I really do enjoy blogging and keep my blog as a journal. But I have to admit I do get pretty excited when I get comments. It is amazing that other people might be interested in what I write.
Happy SS!
I agree with you 100%.
I find it so annoying when I stumble across something in what looks like a blog, but it turns out that it's really just a site that posts a controversial topic once a week to get attention, but really has so may advertisements and signage on their page it's like navigating one's way through the local shopping mall.
Ugh! Tacky.
That's exactly why I blog! It's a creative outlet, a journal, a place to vent, a place to be myself, to write, and to read.
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