Re: Blogging Hits Crossroads: A-Listers Giving Up
Feb 11th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Blogosphere News
My esteemed friend and writer from WEB PRO NEWS – Jason Lee Miler, wrote on the above subject of blogging crossroads today and I commented my reply, this is the crux of my reply and I would definitely talk more about this in nearest future. Enjoy the debate.
All I can proclaim here is that Passion is the fuel of blogging NOT MONEY, if that fuel is exhausted, or dried up, the natural sequence is to walk out from that digital romance before it becomes a bore or a chore. In four years, I have not seen anything to bore me from this uneding digital honeymoon called Blogging.
Passion is the fuel of any career success. The blogging career or profession cannot be an exception. Blogging is first and foremost, an expression of passion.
I strongly sense an abortive attempt here to redefine blogging. When Justin Hall started out as the world’s first blogger in 1993, money was the least of all his consideration and motivation. Pls friends, don’t let us re-write the noble history and purpose of our blogging profession.
I find it ludicrous on this day of our ‘blogoscopic glory’, even acknowledged by New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/us/politics/10media.html when President Obama recognized one of our own: 26-year old Sam Stein, from The Huffington Post, among the elite White House press corps during the White House news conference a few hours ago this evening. This was a day when web Titans like, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, Time, were marked present but not recognized.
Thanks for the money, if, and when it comes, but the greatest joy of any blogger is AUDIENCE. It’s always and would continue to be great joy, when you write from the corner of your room or even from a corner of a football stadium and thousands and hundreds of thousands locate you, to feast on your post. That has always been our joy – RELEVANCE! and FULFILMENT!! I dsay this because I run the 3rd-most visited site (and it is a blog) – 54,000 daily hits, from the digital jungle called NIGERIA! I am happy to earn well above $1.5K monthly in a depressed economy.
True, its a weakness on our part that we are so consumed by production of quality content to the detriment of savvy marketing skills for converting our traffic optimally for great incomes. That is a subject for another day, but it would not rob us of the joy of royal contents that still rules, and would forever rule the web.
Like I always say, CONTENT is a King that must not be stranded in the wilderness of the web, but must find its way to the Palace of the web, where a royal crown and a kingdom awaits it.
Walking away from Techcrunch by Mike cannot rob TechCrunch of its glory just as walking away now, from Huffington Post by Ariana will not rob Huffington Post of her throne in the blogosphere.
