Comments on: Why I Hate Bloggers

By: Rob Sellen

Rob Sellen — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:01:45 +0000

Should I ~~blog~~ write about this?

I like it…both side of the coin, so… I have an opinion on it. :D

By: Dan Hutson

Dan Hutson — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:09:40 +0000

I’m coming to this party a bit late, but I have to add my two cents’ worth of advice:

1. Don’t be a blogger, be a good writer with a point of view and a personality.
2. Don’t be afraid to piss people off if you feel strongly about something.
3. Share if you have something worthwhile to contribute; don’t if you don’t.

Now … how ’bout that Michael Jackson?

By: Rebecca Kelley

Rebecca Kelley — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:27:35 +0000

I seriously think we’re like bizarro versions of each other: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/hey-im-blogging-pay-attention-to-me

By: Justin Parks

Justin Parks — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:56:02 +0000

I cant help smiling

@Lisa, if you ever venture towards Ireland, let us know, we would love to have you in the pub one night, feed you full of drink and have you go on a rant with a few of the locals. Would make for one hell of a post later on. We could even write a song just for you. Made my day reading this.

By: jackie

jackie — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:15:56 +0000

I do enjoy a bit of intelligent irony. Nice one.

By: Yawn Webmaster!

Yawn Webmaster! — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:19:18 +0000

Thank goodness I didn’t read this.

By: Lisa Barone

Lisa Barone — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:37:53 +0000

Chaalz: Wow. That was an excellent analysis. Thank you. Thank you for highlighting how fake you think the world is.

Mark: I don’t think personal bloggers are taking attention away from the professional bloggers. I think if you’re going to blog about your trips to the grocery story or about the adventures of your 3 year old, you have no right to complain to the NYT that you’re not making money off it or that blogging is just hype.

Egger: Yep. I got paid. As part of the company that I run. How you doing?

Bill S: Blogging has actually been around for well longer than 1993, I just threw out that year because it’s recent enough that people like you may still remember it. But I guess not. [head pat] I’ll go back to smacking my gum now. Damn youth.

By: Bill S

Bill S — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:22:35 +0000

Wow, are your time scales off. Blogging in the “early 90s?”. Sweetie, what are you 23? It hasn’t been that long.

Turn down the bitch a little and it’s not a bad article, but it does come off as a tad whiny and boring itself. I’ve seen this topic covered better by Merlin Mann, but he’s just a blogger. What could he have to say? There’s a lot of crap employed “writers” out there too.

By: Egger

Egger — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:41:45 +0000

You got paid to write this?

By: Mark van Laere

Mark van Laere — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:31:56 +0000

I can’t say I agree with your idea about what a blog really is. My opinion, and there we go … is that the web-log-book was concepted and is mainly a digital and public form of diary keeping. Since people who are web-logbooking are aware that the content they publish will be available to a world audience they scrutinize their thoughts and add opinions about whatever they touch. Getting it off their chests so to speak. All in all, a weblog was meant to be and still mainly is one’s personal soapbox.

Your suggestion to pick a niche and write about that is the commercialised form of blogging we have all come to know so well. In this case a (selfproclaimed) copywriter, journalist, opinionist or what have you, writes his or her niche-piece to be read by many, to influence and in too many cases to promote some product or add to their personals stature. In other words,now the blog has become a digital and personal advertorial/editorial medium.

Your suggestion that writing down and publishing personal thoughts is cluttering the web (this is just the taste I got while reading your piece) and taking away attention from all those focussed and (semi) professional blogs has devaluated the “blog” as such is in my opinion a complete 180 degrees turn from the originally intended concept. But hey, I could be wrong ;)