May 22nd, 2007The blogging disease
There is something I always disliked: people who run like a herd of cows into a direction, just because someone made it big. This applies a lot to the internet nowadays too. We had that nice chap making the million with that million dollar home page. As you guess and even know, many others started copy-cats since they thought they’d also hit it big. We had myspace hit it and now all webmasters who want to get rich (preferably over night) want to start such sites). And the list can go on. Now we’re all huge bloggers. Trying to get people to read our words, worrying about bloglog, feedburner, digg and other similar things. Why? Because this is the new trend.
Anyone in his “right” mind has a blog. Some have more. Most are doing this to get revenue and dream about tens of thousands of visitors and subscribers. It’s an industry already. As I read on the Tehnorati main page (weird enough it’s down right now) there’s a quote something like: “x million of blogs are on the net. Some of the have got to be good”. Yes, some of them are good, most of them are utterly crap. Youtube videos streamed though the blog, yahoo news or feeds copied from elsewhere, while the owner doesn’t understand WHY oh why won’t people subscribe to the masterpiece. I won’t name here the “fake” sites on blogger for instance (1 on every 4-5 sites I visit with the “next blog” option) who sell prescription drugs or show porn or other sort of garbage we’ve been flooded with in these last years).
I tried to increase my reading list when it comes to blogs and I have to confess that I am still trying to find something worth of my time. I saw some interesting posts in some blogs (weird enough, not popular blogs) and in some huge ones, but most of the time I read the same “promotional” stuff, or arid information and no personal approach most of the time. Maybe I come from another world, but when I think of a blog I don’t think about Google’s latest news or the fact Gates just sold out Microsoft. I want to “know” the person and read some ideas of his/hers in a given topic. I want HUMAN INTERACTION and not the same copied content and over SEO optimized content I read in so many bad article sites.
The problem is that these personal blogs are not the type to make people turn heads. Many don’t come into the searches because the owner was more interested in genuine content and feelings and not keywords to spread in the text till you just go blind. These blogs don’t sell secret “make money quick” schemes and this makes them least visited and loved. And it’s a pity since they are the true blogs …
I bow to these people and respect them for having the courage to just be themselves rant about anything as I do in my little ranting box and provide me with some REAL food for the thought 
