5. Your Purpose in Blogging
Why did you decide to start a weblog? What did you want your blog to accomplish? Have you achieved that purpose yet?
posted by Martin at 4:51 PM
Wednesday, December 08, 2004
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If my comments seem a bit on the disparaging side, my motivations are two-fold.
1) You posted the link to your site without actually contributing anything to the discussion at hand. One might think you were hoping to leech off the topic for your own purposes, while minimizing the effort on your own part.
2) It takes three clicks to reach the window where one can actually prepare a comment. First, click on "comments," then on "post a comment," then on "anonymous" if one doesn't have a Blogger ID. Almost every site I've commented on has a one- or two-step process, and most of those have a "remember my choices" option.
To sum it up, the impression I'm receiving is that you want others to do your homework for you, and you won't even put in the time to fix your typos or make the process less burdensome for them.
And there is no "quid pro quo" here -- the only motivation for anyone to participate here is to make your life simpler. You don't offer your own opinions, you make no effort to establish a dialogue, you don't even offer cheap or meaningless "prizes" or other incentives. To most people, their own time is their most prized possession, and you seem to take for granted that they will give that to you freely simply because you ask.
I'm spelling this out for you as opposed to simply lambasting you or ignoring you because you dropped the name of Ms. Blood. I had not heard of her before I apparently recreated a bit of her work on my own, and it's out of respect and gratitude for her (I might just have to track down her book now) that I'm spending even the five minutes these comments have taken.
J.
(Jay Tea, www.wizbangblog.com)
J.
Thank you for your post. Your comments convey much about what you value in a blogger. Contributing to an ongoing dialogue and journalistic etiquette being foremost. I have not yet discovered how to lessen the number of steps required to post...but your comments on spelling/grammar are well taken.
I don't know Ms. Blood personally, but she has given me permission to use her six ethical standards in my paper. We exchanged e-mails on the topic and she referenced your discussion of blog ethics.
I would still love to discuss this topic with you further, should you be interested at some point.
-Martin
I started the blog b/c it seemed like it would be fun. I had no goal for it at the start. Events quickly showed me, though, that I could use the blog to get some ideas out into circulation without having to wait for some op/ed page editor to anoint me, and that was very attractive.
Nowadays, much of the time, I don't want my blog to be much more than an amusing few wasted minutes in somebody's workday. But occasionally I move into periods where I use the blog intensely to disseminate my views about a handful of matters that I consider myself expert in.
I started my blog for a couple of reasons.
First, I wanted to keep my writing sharp while I was in a job search.
Second, I wanted to keep my mind sharp by continuing to think about things.
Third, despite my conservatism, I believe in the dialectic, at least as it pertains to developing ideas, and without others to provide input, I don't think I'll really learn anything.
I started a blog for a lot of reasons:
--it seemed neat
--I was turning 30 and blogging seemed a way to stay hip (shallow, I know, but so what?)
--I wanted someplace to post things of interest to me to which I could refer from anywhere, anytime
--I wanted to contribute to a method of online expression my friends were starting to get into
--I wanted to provide a place to discuss things with friends during the week, when we're all too busy to ever see one another
--I wanted a way to make people aware of things I found interesting but knew I would never remember to mention in person
--I wanted a way to display things it's awkward to display in offline conversations ("I saw the coolest Photoshop competition and since we're nowhere near a computer I'll just spend four hours describing the entries to you," vs. "I saw the coolest Photoshop competition - here's its link")
I think I've accomplished all of those things.
Michael
http://www.robustmcmanlypants.org/blog
I had some things I wanted to share with people. My thoughts from the war zone. I wasn't able to blog from there, but I did write things down, and when I got the chance, I put it up.
I belong to a long tradition of semi-public writing (in SF-Fandom) and the habit is there, so it grew.
These days I post commentary on politics, the service/the war, introspection on my life, and food porn.
TK
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I despise how self-involved people are, but it makes good reading. I am fascinated by people, and I take immense pleasure in learning about them from a protected place (the safety of a web browser).
I also hated blogging, until a critical mass of my friends tipped my opinion. Now, I rationalize it to myself by simply saying "It can't be that bad seeing that THEY all do it."
Of course, that implies some sort of functional otherness to blogging. Which, there isn't. Its just a labeling something we've been doing all along, simply because a technology enabled it. I mean, its like calling a sport an Xtreme sport. Its only Xtreme because we call it extreme. We're only bloggers because we call ourselves bloggers.
Blogging software worked easier than the old phpBB bulletin board software that used to form the core of my website. It's better organized, easier for readers to navigate, easier for visitors to interact and easier for me to maintain.
Initially, I started my blog as a class project in library school. We were required to keep a journal, and I thought the blogs automatic date/time features would be easy to use.
Initially, I thought I would use my blog as a way to showcase my skills as a librarian, and to make comments on information of importance to librarians. I still do some of that, as well as review books, movies, and tv shows, but I also put a lot of personal information in--recipes, travel information, and personal commentary on whatever comes to mind. I'm sort of thinking that perhaps my blog is a little bit "too" open and gives too many clues to my personality. At a job interview one person commented that I am obviously very outgoing since I talk about so many things on my blog--I'm not, I'm sort of the outspoken, introverted type.
I haven't achieved my initial purpose--I still don't have a job as a librarian. Because we have our own server at home, I get detailed statistics. The topics I find interesting personally don't seem to be the topics people a reading--for example, I often write product reviews and these seem to be the most popular feature.
I don't have much interaction with my readers--they don't post comments or send me email. I would like this to increase.
At first, because I was curious about this phenomenon. Then because it was fun, I like to write and this is a form of written communication, and then as a way to learn some html. It also enabled me to learn enough to start a blog at work, the first time I've made a hobby part of my work life. I even got to take a seminar on blogging as a result.
My purpose was to have fun, so yeah, I've accomplished that. :)
I wanted to write for an audience that can appreciate my efforts and engage in conversations. I wanted the blog to be considered a good source of information and hoped it would also provide a secondary source of income.
On both points, to a degree, yes, they've been achieved. I also hoped it would lead to other writing assignments and that has not been realized yet.
Kevin Hayden
The American Street
My blog is a professional record. Really, to me, it's almost like transmitting in the clear, looking for peers of like mind in the professional sphere.
As things progress in the new group I'm in, I also hope it can become a form of documentation for groups.
Really, right now my blog is fairly lame, I'm trying to feel around for what to put in there, how to blog, etc.
Mike Conway
UNC
I'd just like to say that my understanding was that you were doing a research paper on the topic. My understanding of such papers is that you gather data from subjects and then draw conclusions.
Perhaps you cold be clearer about that in your home page, so people aren't expecting this to be a blog about blog ethics (where interactivity and expression of your opinion would be expected), but rather understand it's a data gathering site for you.
I decided to start a blog because I like to write. And I'm very opinionated. And because I was fascinated by the ways the Internet can connect people.
Back when I started I wanted my blog to entertain and inform. I feel it often does that.
Now I'd like my blog to generate more interesting activities in my life. It has already generated a monthly newspaper column for me, and I'm happy for there to be more! but I need a bigger audience, and it hasn't generated that yet.
Hi Elisa,
You are the second person to mention that issue (data gathering site vs. blog about ethics). My hope it that this becomes both. I do need to gather data from subjects (qualitative data in this case), but I thought creating a blog (instead of a boring e-mail survey) would foster a debate and some interaction. The fault lies withme...I have been writing and grading my students' final exams for a week and havn't been much of a host. Thank you for sharing you comments. I plan to post the paper I write here in January, maybe that will stoke the rhetorical fires.
-Martin
I started a blog because my group of friends had spread far and wide, and though we kept in touch, all the little peculiarities of our days got lost in the greater scheme of "So whatcha been up to?" Goin' Ape exists for those peculiarities. I love the self-involvedness of our blog, which really doesn't have to do with anything but our egoistic tales of obscure heroics if we don't want it to be.
I started blogging to complement the legal education I was about to pursue. One of the reasons I was motivated to go to law school was because the Important People were making all sorts of horrid decisions without asking me what I thought. Then I realized, I wasn't SAYING anything. I started the blog in large part because I wanted to start speaking up in the world, and this was an outlet, as someone pointed out upthread, that didn't require annointment from the op-ed page editors of the world in order to be able to do it.
I also wanted to use it as a tool to measure the changes in my thinking the legal education was likely to affect. Although I blog about random things as the mood strikes, the core theme to it is the "Great Change" and how I've been changing, as a thinker and as a person, as a result of my education. To that end I talk about milestones in the process, contemplate legal doctrines and policies, and generally express thoughts about the world as I see it through my law student eyes. Through this exercise I hope that when I'm finished with school I will have left enough breadcrumbs that I can go back and review my growth.
Of course, these are but two of the reasons why I blog. But they are two of the biggest.
Cathy, 2L
www.cathygellis.com
The idea of starting to blog came as a result of reading someone else's blog. I figured the whole concept was pretty interesting. For me, the underlying for mu blogging is really ifor the sole purpose of documenting, or to use a more interesting word, capturing the happenings of the present, to serve as memories for the future. Well, I guess it's also a means of updating people who know me, as to what's going on in my life. i mean when i have kids, i want to know how i thought as a 20 year old, or so on. It'll help me understand them better. We tend to forget or dimiss some aspects of life which was once a part of us. But post importantly, blogging does help in the thought process, because when you write, it helps you think.
- Justina
http://blog.juznuts.com
See answers to 1 - 4 of your previous questions!
I cannot remember exactly why I started; but know exactly why I continue: it's addictive.
I blog to stop my head exploding, or, slightly less extreme, becoming a crazy letter writer, bombarding newspapers and MPs with arguments they won't publish or read.
Considered less negatively, my blog helps me develop and organise my thoughts, allowing my ideas to revise, expand, reference and record my arguments rather than simply repeat myself over and over again in the pub.
And hopefully, someone will read what I have to say.
I wrote about why I blog here
I started by reading Belle de Jour, a blog which received a huge amount of media attention in the UK and has now spawned a book to be released this month.
I thought maybe it was something I could do to relieve the boredom of my day job (which is not very fulfilling), to do some writing (which I missed since college) and hopefully entertain. I also like fiddling with computers and web site apps so it gave me an excuse to learn some more of those skills.
I started out writing about the country I live in as an expat (France) and giving a Brit's eye view, and I've noticed that over time the posts became more personal and I put myself out there more for people to see.
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i blog solely to impress my friends with my intellect and wittiness. Socially i am inept but on a blog I can show off and be myself. Yes it is shallow but its honest and I know im not the only one who blogs for those reasons
We blog just to bring quality links to our users. It's quite similar to a radio broadcast in basics. Users like the organic filteration process we have and come back to see more. It is a value service.
I've been toying with the idea of blogging for the past two years; to be rudely honest, I haven't had the b@lls to get it done, up until today.
I'd like to blog for the same reasons that other writer's blog: so that folk will read my craft and fall faint to my literary talents, or throw up, or something...
I started blogging without purpose. I already blog for just half a year and for now this is my extra income because of my earnings. For the first time I blog i don't even know ow and what should I do or it really earn money. But now I already earn. I am not waisting time surfing on the net. My writing skills and blogging style is still improving because of blogging..
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Do you not feel that the idea of "blogging" in general is to do something people will read? The purpose in blogging itself lies only with whoever the target audience might be. Those who simply wish to document their everyday lives wish to present to those interested - or are doing something different. People in general wish to know something they already don't. If you are like me, "normal", then the target audience of those around might not be others in themselves, however might be you. Sometimes, people are bored and just wish to pass time. That is fine, however if you so happen to do so think about you audience, your readers. People can do amazing things with a power like this, but only very few people I have encountered in my excessively short life have ever done something truly outstanding. Blogging doesn't have to be about literary talent, but should be about telling people something they want to know. Take it from someone with experience. And a final word of advice to the "anonymous" messenger at the top, if you do wish to grind into someone, people want to hear what the have done right. Not just show how you can dig into someone for a mundane item as spelling errors. To the writer of the blog, I congratulate you on the communication of something good.
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