Cover your own *SS
Presently, movers and shakers who jumped into the
blog-o-sphere to carve out a quick niche before thier
competition, are wishing they could take back some of
the things they wrote in order to drive traffic their
way. Of course, this is nothing more than armchair
quarterbacking at best. Everybody wishes they had
20-20 hinde sight. The problem, as I see it, is the
meld between commercial vs. personal. The taxomony vs.
folksomony.
When the blogs started hitting the mainstream
conciousness, commercial webheads, designers, and the
like, couldn't, for the life of themselves, figure out
what in the world anybody would want a blog for! Well,
it took a number of signts like blogger.com,
flickr.com, livejournal.com, to change hands for
millions of dollars before mainstream commerce could
see value in the product. And now, the early
ego-driven adopters, who dropped everything to carve
out large territories, might have said things they
have since regretted the rash pen. All the more
discouraging, because blogging is just that. It isn't
commercial, and wasn't intended to be. It was
expostulation in the moment. Throw it out there and
see what happens. Many poured out their souls in
minute detail, and chucked the consequences. Most, if
not all of these writers spilled their guts, and the
pen went dry. These were replaced by many more;
communities of niche markets sprung up, and the term
blog-o-sphere became a self fulfilling prophesy.
So, when I hear about some web guru who has hundred of
thousands of readers, and who gives speeches at all
the noted web conferences for large commanding sums of
money, I have no sympathy if all of a sudden they wish
they could take back something they wrote on a blog
eons(read months)ago.
If anyone reading this has a passion for writing, then
get out there and blog. It is the blast it was meant
to be.
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posted by BrushMark @ 12:02 PM
