I don’t do well with niche blogging. My curiosity gets in the way, and I soon get bored with whatever niche it may be. Anyway, all niches are taken, not just once but sometimes hundreds of very qualified people are writing about any given subject. I need freedom to write whatever I want, particularly on a blog.
A current school of thought is, blogging is dead. If you consider the blog in its original concept, a personal web log, a journal much like a teenager’s diary, then it is. The social networking sites have taken on that role for now. Blogging has evolved into information web sites. Those of us who still have a blog know that.
We know that any business has arrived when the government sets regulations. The new FTC guidelines is the best indicator of just how maturated blogs have become. Professional blogging is about selling. We all sell, either ourselves or a product or service.
This is my house warming for Weblog Redux. I think of it as “Scatter Shot Blogging” due to the nature of eclectic subject matter. The primary focus is what I’ve learned about the Internet, blogging, writing, and computers over the last 30 plus years. My desire is to “add to the common knowledge” by relating mistakes I’ve made and the corrections that followed.
In the October 2009 issue of Harper’s Magazine, there is a story by Jonathan Lethem – The Dreaming Jaw, The Salivating Ear. Take what you will from this.
I do not think I will visit my blog anymore. It is not so much the smell that discourages me – gulls have skeletonized the corpse in the entranceway, and the lapping tide has salt-rinsed the floorboards where the intruder’s blood was once caked as thick as fruit-leather – as it is a certain malodor of memory persisting there. The stink of my disappointment being that stink which the sea’s salt can never rinse.
I will visit my blog again, this time for me. This is my new home, and has still has that new smell about it.
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Good luck on your new blog. I am glad you are going to expand your writing topics, I have followed your old blogs and enjoy your insights.
Thank you. I’m shooting for the best with this one.
I’m looking forward for your posts! By the way, niche blogging is not always necessary. As long as you talk about what you really like and with a lot of enthusiasm. I already sense that the enthusiasm is there, so it will work out just fine. Enjoy writing and we’ll enjoy reading.
Thanks Paul. I appreciate your interest. I have a few ideas, things I want to try. And I sincerely hope to give something back to the community.
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