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The Blogs Of Our Lives

When you look at my archives, you might say that I’m just new in blogging, started in February of 2008, with 26 entries, a dozen feed readers, no PR, and with an Alexa Rank of a little over a million. But in reality, this is my 8th blog, my only dotcom (excluding that of multiply and friendster), in over two years of blogging.

“Eighth? How do you manage to maintain them all?” you might ask. I would also like to ask that question to my friend who claims to have 25. To tell you, it’s not easy maintaining multiple blogs with limited time and resources. So I’ve buried two and seldom post on the three others. That left me with three to regularly maintain. And in those three, I have at least one post a week in each and not one has a repost of the content of the others.

Blogging really has a significant impact on people’s lives, especially on the blogger. Some fingers turn itchy when they fail to post an entry. Even a sight of an unusual signboard, or a scandal reported in the news are treated as blogging subjects. There is actually truth to another blogger’s statement (which I cannot recall whom) that there is no contentment in blogging. Before problogging became a hit, we just blog about our lives, our thoughts, our hobbies and our interests. We didn’t care much about money-making, rankings, keywords, design and statistics then. We were even contented with less than a dozen loyal readers. We just held on to the motto that content is king, and that originality and the writing style are its close aides.

Then someone found a formula in making money out of blogs. “Hail to that person!” proclaimed many. The blogs of our lives changed colors too as we follow the throngs to dreamland. “Why have I not done this or that earlier in my blogging life?” Then the personal blogs becomes money-making blogs with adsense, text links, banner ads and sponsored posts. Some even went to the extent creating another domain blog just for the purpose of making money online. They have transformed into internet marketeers and experts on online money-making. Seldom will you find a popular blog with no ads on it.

The blogs of our lives have socialized too. There are too many social networks to mention and we dressed up our blogs well for this socializing with the purpose of getting more traffic, and converting them into money. We blog for keywords, top searches for the day, copy paste (plus revise) here and there, and then submit it to some sites which brings in more traffic. And it’s not wrong. We are just social beings.

But at the end of the day, we look at the blogs of our lives. Is it really us or just someone who fancy blogging too much?

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