The Joy of Blogging
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Where has the joy gone? I started my first blog back in 1999, I think. It was at Diaryland and I wrote for the simple pleasure of writing. I wrote to express myself and to share my life with my friends. And, to make new friends as I networked carefree on the other Diaryland blogs.
Most of the blogs I read these days are hard core efforts that talk endlessly about Page Rank, making money, and getting links. It is exciting to be able to learn these things from other bloggers, but I often get a little anxious as I read some of the blogs. They are intense bits of blogging. There is a certain desperation behind the style and the language. Adrenaline is surging and the stakes are so amazingly high. Money money money. It’s a mad dash to make a million while you sleep until noon and order in pizza. And while I will never condemn that aspiration, I do get a tad weary of the pace those bloggers keep.
I like reading the power blogs. Don’t get me wrong. I’m just a little nostalgic for the days of blogging for the sake of blogging. Or, as we used to call it – keeping an online journal.
As far as Suncoast Scribe goes, I have not decided what route I will go in monetizing it. I’ve not added any advertising networks yet and am not sure if I will. I take very few paid blogging assignments here, as I post less often on this blog and do not want to interrupt the balance. Besides, I still have not found my footing, or my niche, so to speak.
In any case, I certainly hope I keep the tone of this blog a little more leisurely than most of what you might find online. Please, let me know if my tone ever stresses you out! That’s not my goal here.
You’re stressing me out! AHHHHHHHH! j/k Ha ha. I’m trying to figure out what my niche will be too. Lately I’ve been writing more about blogging (how to be a better blogger and so on) because that’s where my interest has been lately. Though I think with more time, it will surely switch to something else net related.
And I feel that if I was lucky and knew what my blog was about now, things would be a whole lot easier in some senses. But in other senses, things are going well, people are reading, people are visiting…so I guess I shouldn’t be complaining right?
I try to keep a mixture between my blog. Some seo and just some good old blogging.
Hang in ther, Angie. Your blog is awesome! Don’t let group think get you down!
I totally agree with you. I’m pretty new to blogging compared to you
If your other blogs are indication, I don’t think you have to much to be concerned about. Your blogs are still your blogs.
My feelings exactly. When my accounts/website/blogs got hacked last month, I was forced to take a step back and just not blog for a week or so. And it gave me the clarity to know what to do. We had created a new domain to get away from teh hacker, but I realized a week or so later that that would undo all the work I’ve done for page ranking on my main blog. So, my main blog stays the same, where I AM concerned about page rank, monetizing it, etc. BUT, the new domain my host created because of the hacker problems, I decided to make it an “ad-free” place. Get back to the basics of blogging. I had a diary briefly at Diaryland, and several other places, but finally settled on getting my own domain. I miss the days of blogging for the simplicity of blogging. And decorating with graphics and such. So, my other blog “Serenity” –is just for that purpose. And I try to give it as much attention and time as my paid blog gets. Friendship and networking — for the sake of just friendship, and not link love has its own merit and worth. And I miss that.
All of this to say – I totally agree with you as well:)
That’s what I try to do with Drivel, keep it pretty “pure”. I think of Drivel as my art blog and Directives as my commerce blog.
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