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What Blogging is Not.

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This video makes a good point on bloggers versus journalists. Blogs are whatever we want them to be. They can be our soul written on the web, or hard-fact evidence written to our pleasure. So, what is this guy to say that we can’t “journalize” when we write in our blogs?

As a avid blogger myself, I often find myself writing about something that happened in the news, or something that comes to my interest, by either the news or self discovery. Most of the time, its the news :P When I mean news, I mean television, because reading a newspaper, these days, is not much when you can look up anything in your public area faster on the web.

(That and its cheaper than paying how much ever you pay for the newspaper.) :P

The blogosphere, as the video states, is much more than that of journalism. It includes journalism, but it goes onto so much more than just than that. Its an exchange of writers ideas, concepts, and sometimes, a good way to start a journal.

As the guy in the video said, even news reporters look to blogs for ideas on what to report, and what not to report, even if at the end of the day, the news reporter’s boss says its actually not news.

But you see, there is the beauty of blogging. No one tells you what you can and cannot write about. Of course, if your blog is a tech blog, it would just be insane to write about why the mice in china can’t communicate with the mice in Aussie country.

Well, with this in mind, make sure that when you make your blog, it means something to you, even if it doesn’t mean so much to the public. Also, remember that if you get paid to blog, it is something that you should enjoy, not dread just because you want the money.

We all want money, its just not everything life is about :!: So, go explore, make a blog :!:


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