Do you have these 4 Problems with Blogs

What the use of Blogs? Blogs are tool that where people can share their ideas and interests with others around the globe through a global internet platform. As far as I’m concerned the state of blogs is one of chaos, confusion, and anti-interactivity.
The other day I decided to do some research on the Web and try to connect to some blog writers out there that interested me. Let me tell you it was not an enjoyable task as I had envisioned. I spent four painful hours surfing through around a thousand on-line journals, and I found only a few that interested me. What are we doing out there people?

1. Just getting to a blog can be a pain in the arse. For example, you type in the words ‘Philosophy blogs’ and a whole bunch of sites come up. Some are conglomerate sites with thousands of journals, but the area you’re searching for may have only one blog in it! This is because they separate the blogs into a million different categories, like ‘love’, ‘lovers’, ‘lovable’ etc. Why not have just a few main categories to choose from?

2.The content. People with ‘philosophical’ blogs are having personal chats with their mates about the local dance competition on Tuesday! Why not go to a chat room if you just want to talk to your friends? Blogs are supposed to be a personal viewpoint expressed to the whole Web community. Wouldn’t you actually like to meet more people like yourself? How is this going to happen if you talk in strange uncommon slang and acronyms that you and your friends can only understand? Please stick to the subject at hand, and take it at least half seriously.

3.Update frequency.Another major problem is the fact that you can find a really cool blog that sparks an interest, but then find that the writer hasn't added an entry in over a year! What's it doing on the Net? Have these people missing in action? I seriously doubt it, as there are so many blogs in this ‘lost’ state. Having a blog is a responsibility; it's a shared diary for the whole community. How can someone form a relationship if you only write in your blog once a millennium?


4.The issue of making comments on someone's blog is also a controversial one. Why have comments sections if you're not going to reply to people who have expressed an interest in what you've had to say? How is this community going to function if all the conversation is one-way! Come on people, wake up and smell the onions! Let’s change the blogging community into the awesome structure of shared knowledge that it was intended for. Please don’t let it turn into the small-talk world of chat rooms.

The Problems with Blogs
Author:
Jesse S. Somer M6.Net @http://www.m6.net

What a secret benefit to blogging?

Even people who don't own a computer know what blogging is. Everyone is talking about it. Heck, even the Doonesbury comic strip ran a few panels on the subject. Anna Kournikova even has a blog for crying out loud!

But did you know that there is a secret benefit to blogging that has NOTHING to do with the subject matter? In fact, you could blog on about the sex life of the Tasmanian fruit fly and
still reap big rewards.

Yep, just like nearly everything else on the Internet, there's money to be made with blogging IF you know the secret...

OK, OK. I'll tell you, but first let's take a quick ride in the wayback machine and see how blogging came to be as popular as it is today.

Back at the dawn of the World Wide Web, new web sites were a rarity. Geekie folks struggled with the new technology and the launch of a new page, A new web site was practically a
media event. In the early days of the Internet, each new page was a cause for celebration.

In 1992, Tim Berners-Lee, the scientist generally credit with inventing the World Wide Web (and you thought it was Al Gore, I'll bet), created the first What's New page. Later, another
Internet legend, Marc Andreesen, put up his own page. Both of these men created hot links to all of the new pages springing up on the net.

As the World Wide Web came into its own, a new breed of programmer, called a Web Master (because they had mastered the World Wide Web) created their own pages that contained
suggestions on cool web sites to visit. Because they didn't list every single new web site, just the ones that they thought were interesting, they were said to have filtered the net. In 1998, Jorn Barger, a bit of an odd duck, even by Internet pioneer standards, first used the term 'weblog' to describe his blog called 'Robot Wisdom'.

As bloggers banded together to form communities, people sought easier and faster ways to create blogs. As a result, automated and easy to use blogging programs such as Blog-In-A-Box were developed so that even a half-dazed wallabie can put up a blog in between munching on stalks of grass.

But why in the world would you need to run a blog if you have an income-generating site?

Surely your customer isn't interested in reading about your trials and tribulations of the daily business grind, right?
Probably not. However, if you can build a blog that catches their attention, such as where the fish are biting if you sell fishing supplies, they WILL come. And so will the surprise that I mentioned earlier.

You see, among your visitors to your blog will be a software
program known as a spider. Not just any spider, mind you, but
the granddaddy of all search engine spiders -- the Google
spider. You see, Google LOVES to index blogs. Yep, it's true.
And that, as soon-to-be inmate Martha would say, is a good
thing.

In a nutshell, Google loves pages that have links to other
pages. Blogs link to all kinds of stuff. Google loves pages
that are linked FROM other pages. A good blog gets lots of
links to it as loyal readers tell everyone they know to put
links to their favorite blog on their web site.

Finally, Google loves fresh content. An active blog's content
can change minute by minute, but at least it's almost guaranteed
to change daily.

So, if you can find a decent subject to blog about, and you can
get a blog up and running quickly and easily, you just might be
amazed at what happens to your site's page rank in a few weeks
or more.

Listen, with tools like Blog-In-A-Box available to get you
going, there really is no reason NOT to get blogging!

Good luck from a couple of fellow bloggers.


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Author:
Steve Robichaud and Andrew Wroblewski have been involved in
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