Blogging about Blogging??!

I'm back... after a 6 month long break... (though I don think anyone knows that i exist here) still.. I'd like to announce... that I"M BACK!!! yaay to me..

Well.. I started off blogging just for kicks... to bring to the virtual world some of my random musings.. Then I stopped(God alone knows why) and now (thank God- again!) I've been bitten by the blogging bug and I'm back!! Gosh! I guess I should stop saying that now.. But then I began to wonder whatitistoblog?? After much pondering and wondering I realised that Blogging is a strange phenomenon. For some people it's a very easy way to build a website. For others it's an attempt at making money. For some it just about having a voice online, that the whole world can read their thoughts, and what their dog had for dinner. There are millions and millions of blogs out there. Most aren't that great, but as long as the person writing it is having fun, it doesn't matter.

What annoys me most about Blogging now is the sheer number of blogs that are about nothing more than er... Blogging! I was looking at other blogs before finally continuing my own which was stuck on my favourites list for months... I saw many blogs on 'How to build a massive following, how to make Rs. 5,000 a week from sitting at home, how to write the best blog in the world, how to get the best search results.' A favourite amongst most is, "How to write that perfect post, which will change the world forever!!".

A lot of it just feels like Blogging for Blogging sake, and nothing to do with providing something that people actually want to read. Some blogs are truly excellent in their own niche. This very post is leaning towards that whole concept of talking about Blogging on a blog. I just wish there was more interesting content on blogs and a few less blog experts, telling everyone how to make another blog an xpert blog. (but I did come across some pretty great blogs which did inspire me to continue mine)

Sometimes i don't understand what motivates people to blog. I personally don't read blogs to learn how to blog. I read them for interesting content. I'm not interested if other Bloggers want to read my blog. They won't find any 'secrets' to my success (mainly because their isn't any success). I don't aim my blog content at other bloggers, I aim it at people who have similar interests as me and find some humor in my writing and most imporatnt of 'em al.. for me. When I first started out, I didn't have a clue who it was aimed at. For a short time I was taken in by all the hype surrounding Blogging. I now realized my calling, but am not really a Blogger at all (per say). I'm just using this Blog as a tool, to deliver my ideas and thoughts to the online world.

All I'd like to say (and begin with) is Bloggers, wake up. There is no magic route to great success and fortune. For some exceptional blogs, there is, but we can't all replicate that success, just by typing a few words on our own blogs or slaving away at updating them every single day, just to please the 50 people who read it everyday. Blogging should be fun, and should be about communicating within a niche that isn't possible in any other way.


Bloggers bitching about other blogs is also quite irritating, but that is the subject of another post!

lol!! :D

~*cheers*~