I found this image on Flamingo House Happenings. After several weeks of writing a blog, reading other blogs and commenting on numerous blog entries, it struck a chord. I’m not sure if Denise feels that surfing the web and reading blogs, or writing her own blog, is “wasting time on ridiculous stuff”. Probably not.
But sometimes I look at the sheer volume of words that are produced and re-produced and copied and edited and linked to and from, and I’m thinking to myself “this is insane. Why the constant, endless chewing of the same topics, over and over again?”
Or as Hugh Macleod of GapingVoid put it, “Sure, blogging is huge. But the barriers to entry are so low, the number of people trying to get a piece of the action is so enormous, there’s going to be a lot of really, really tiny pieces out there”.
I did find out today that “a number of media outlets in recent years have started treating the blogosphere as a gauge of public opinion, and it has been cited in both academic and non-academic work as evidence of rising or falling resistance to globalization, voter fatigue, and many other phenomena.”[Wikipedia].
So all this endless chatter does have some significance.
But I also found out that some researchers believe that blogging is not necessarily here to stay. This is research from 2006 that tells us blogging rates will peak in 2007, then start falling. Couldn’t find newer data. So soon it will be all over?
To me, the most valuable content out there is the deeply personal one. When I read about Jenn’s victory over drug addiction, or about Gena dealing with, and surviving, bullying during her childhood, I was inspired and in awe of these beautiful examples of human strength.
Some of these “tiny pieces” are not so tiny after all.
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I'm Vered DeLeeuw, a blogger for hire and a social media consultant. My social media campaigns increase brand awareness and loyalty, improve search engine rankings and drive targeted traffic to my clients' websites. Momgrind is my personal blog.
