Comments on: Are personal blogs dead?

By: Karan Rajpal

Karan Rajpal — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 05:23:57 +0000

People came on to the blogosphere from the internet for a reason. They wanted to express and hear from others, as individuals. Today, people on the blog side of life, if I may call them so, look at things with different perspectives.
For e.g.- I may look at the movie reviews in a TOI or HT, but I am equally looking forward to the reviews by greatbong (look him up). He analyses movies with the raw, acerbic lens that I apply and appreciate.

These sites-masquerading-as-blogs would appear, shine and then lose out as people find too many things to follow. I have about 100 feeds on my reader now, and mostly don’t find time to read a site that has 47 posts in the three days that I’ve been off.

May be I’m slow. Maybe.

By: bhatnaturally

bhatnaturally — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:55:02 +0000

Saurabh, , thanks for the comment. Even blogs that don’t chase readership have a loyal fan base – check out krishashok.wordpress.com. His humour is very Tamil/Madras based but going by the comments he gets, people looking forward to his posts every week!

By: bhatnaturally

bhatnaturally — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:52:25 +0000

I agree on Twitter wholeheartedly! I am not a Twitter addict for the same reasons. On the anti-spam math protection, will check out Captcha and see if its any better.

By: Goobi

Goobi — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:48:07 +0000

The twitter feeds are a sham. Okay, we get it, “What you are doing”. But once you get used to twitter, enough of the small talk! “It’s raining here!” is one of the worst kinds of tweets. Not to mention I myself partake in some of these nonsense tweets (though I don’t do it excessively). I mean, if a person has 10k tweets within the span of 10 months, you can expect what the quality of those tweets will be like. Unfollowed.

Personal blogs are the best. Every comment is cherished, and every linkup gives you immense satisfaction. Takes a little of your time, but it leaves a trail of history behind, so you know how things have gone in your own life.

And I don’t consider Engadget and the like as ‘blogs’. They are websites that merely use the blogging platform (software) to publish content.

[And what's with the difficult math for spam protection? I had to use the age old "7 in my mind, 6 out" technique to get to the figure 13]

By: Saurabh Garg

Saurabh Garg — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 05:41:03 +0000

Completely agree with you have to say.

I do not blog because I want the world to read my opinions but share things that I think are important to me and I think my friends or my contacts would want to know about.

I also use my blog as my CV. In case I need professional contacts, people can read what I do and what interests me. People would know what they are getting into.

As far as professional blogging sites and search engine rankings go, they might eventually end up replacing the traditional media engines.

Regards,
SG