I’ve been looking the blog world over for almost 3 years serious and a couple before that off and on. I have some set opinions about what it is and where it’s going. Many commercials reference “Twitter” and “Facebook” nowadays and I want people to know these trivial fun zones are not the canvas of a true blogger. I want to talk about what blogging truly is, to me. But first, what it’s not:
Blogging is not Facebook, Twitter, and microblog platform blogs. As a blogger, I do these things but they are not the special content reserved for blogging. My blog posts are published by me on a platform I tweak and control (Wordpress self-hosted). Nobody is up 24/7 working to improve my blog apart from what I do for it. It’s not a social network though I use them to promote it.
Bloggers are:
Writers who have a vision for their work. Specialists in their field who write quality content intended for an audience. They are rugged individualists who are ever crafting their art, hoping to gain readers for their content and style. Bloggers always study what they do to note what works and what doesn’t. It’s a whole different world apart from microblogging. It’s closer to authoring a published novel than participating in fun toys like Facebook or Twitter. I just wanted to make this clear where I stand on the subject. I have a shortcut to all the big social networks but when I blog a post of 150-500 words, I get in my “artist” mode and it’s no longer mundane snippets cast out to the nothingness as microblogging so often is. I take my blogging as seriously as I take the doctor or my wedding or a funeral or a sunset or something scary in uncharted territory, revealing, evolutionary, and wonderful like that. When you visit my blog … you aren’t reading something trivial, you’re hearing my take on life and death and the time in between.
