Comments on: Bring Back the Personal Blog

By: Dorthea Hastin

Dorthea Hastin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:44:54 +0000

i like your writing style

By: Richard Stacy

Richard Stacy — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:06:03 +0000

What’s with this thing ‘personal blogging’? Personal? A blog is simply a tool can be used to publish, in a certain way and form, information. Any information. About anything. By anyone. Its who is doing it that is personal – not what they are doing. Seeking to conflate a certain type of information or content (personal) with a specific publishing tool or channel (blog) – well, that just so much an old-fashioned web1.0 way of looking at things. Everything in 2.0 is personal – even when its not personal – that’s the whole point.

By: Mahesh CR

Mahesh CR — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:41:45 +0000

Its about human tendency to be aligned with the majority, to be seen as normal yet exceed them in some ways. Blogging nowadays is saddled with so much expectations that one is overwhelmed with expectations even before starting to write a post.

Let us stop this and reward individuals for the actual content they post. Let Google not be the arbiter of what is worth discovering and spending time on.

By: Dario Salvelli

Dario Salvelli — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:34:46 +0000

The stats graph is not found. I think that blogging isnt dying. I think that the problem come from the business blogging that can compete and destruct genuine blogs.

By: Luke Gedeon

Luke Gedeon — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:39:44 +0000

Personal blogging has to die to make room for the next big thing. Also we are nearing the end of the Web 2.0 bubble which means everything should start looking really bleak soon. But, never fear. A new age of technology will rise from the ashes of Web 2. Hopefully with a more creative name than 3.0 :). It is the down times that provide the gaps so that historians (like me) can tell one era from the next.

By: c.k.

c.k. — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:24:02 +0000

Looks like Compete is *really* low in its estimations of my traffic, but good to see I’m on the rise!

According to Google Analytics, I’m at 22K uniques for the past month, and that’s with 10 days of no reporting when I changed the site design and forgot the Google code. Most days in the past two weeks I average 1000-1500 uniques. I used to be steady at 30K uniques a month, but now it’s closer to 38K, methinks. Even better I’m pulling in a whopping $75 a month. Hello retirement! ;-)

Kidding and self-pimpage aside, I agree totally. More personal bloggers. Or wait… We have tons of personal bloggers. Personal bloggers became hard to find b/c there are now sooooooo many personal bloggers that you can’t find the good ones for all the not so good ones. Too much noise to signal. Yeah, I think that’s it.

By: Louis Gray

Louis Gray — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:26:58 +0000

I would like to see more successful individual bloggers. In the cases above, you have some good examples of individual bloggers who made the leap to big-name sites with MG Siegler going to VentureBeat, and Duncan switching from TechCrunch to the Inquisitr. (I’d argue that’s where more attention would lie)

Also – despite month to month bumps, what do you think happened in March for me to catapult the statistics? I think I know.

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