Why Blog?
Satya Prakash asks this question in his latest post. He tries to reason out the answer as well:
A blog is about one’s affiliation, association, subscription, belief, disbelief, disenchantment and disappointment with some idea(s). The view presented in a blog can’t always be compared with Op-Ed pages of a newspaper. There can be several sources or websites which have better substances, but a blog is author’s personal substantiation.
Will Luke finds himself in the same boat. He, like many of us, has seen the progress blogs have made in the recent past:
I just find it really interesting. Blogs are evolving so quickly (they’ve certainly changed and matured beyond measure in my short time fiddling around with them). Channels, sets or groups of blog-types are forming. Initially, most people simply used the format to write about their mundane lives. “I went shopping. Shopping sux lol” is about as interesting as they got.
Blogs are the strong new medium by which ideas of any one and every one can be published instantly. In another era, you would have to write to a newspaper and hope that the newspaper would publish it in the letters to the editor if not the OP-ED column. A blog has it’s own audience - doesn’t matter if it is large or small. Amit Varma talked about blogs being The New Journalism:
Blogs may have began, in the late 1990s, in that manner, but they have evolved into a powerful new form of journalism, that offers journalists the scope to do things that they cannot do in other media, and that draws discerning readers for just this reason. I experienced this when I blogged on my journey through Tamil Nadu on my blog, India Uncut… My normal quota of 800 pageviews a day – pretty good for a month-old blog – shot up to over 13,000 a day when I began reporting from the coast, and my 10 days of reporting from there got me over 100,000 pageviews, thus demonstrating the power of word-of-mouth on the internet. And the efficacy of this new form of journalism.
A blog can be very powerful. It is there for you to exploit. It can mean different things for differnet people; every one can use it in a different way. For example, for me, Sportolysis means my sporting outlet. I am a huge sports fan (duh! as if I needed to state it given I started a blog on sports). I think a lot of sports and like to talk about it. What better way to do it than via a blog and share my thoughts with however large or small audience develops.
Why do you blog?
Tags: Blogging, Sportolysis.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:40 am
I think! therefore I blog!
Pratyush,
A good post within which you state: “and share my thoughts with however large or small audience develops”
Howevere large or small: that is the crux. that is the point.
~ RJ
April 12th, 2006 at 3:03 am
I love writing; so whatever comes to my mind I write; often I write out of frustration - I can’t shout at the politicians or the people who kills animals unnecessarily or destroy nature or those who live a lavish lifestyle without bothering about others; so where can I take that frustration out - through my blog; I also blog to capture all the obscure news for my knowledge, pleasure and if anyone in the world interested in them - example women sports.
For various other and lots of other reasons I blog. I have been with the blog world since almost it started, though I myself didn’t begin to write till last year; however, I can tell you that almost all the famous blogs (by this I mean the number of comments it gets) are those where people talk about mundane lives. Atleast that’s my observation.
April 13th, 2006 at 3:03 am
I blog because I love writing, because blogging gives me a creative outlet that knows no bounds. I also blog because I love talking and essentially when I write and some one reads it gives me the feeling that I’m talking and people are listenning. I like being heard. That’s why I blog.
April 13th, 2006 at 9:42 am
Thanks for your inputs RJ, KL and Zainub. :)
April 13th, 2006 at 10:38 pm
My blog started out as a straight diary of my cricket season, designed so i could look back on previous entries and see if there was anything i was doing right/wrong.
Once i got a proper site, i started to write about other things because i
like to write, simple as.
April 14th, 2006 at 3:17 am
Tom: I guess most bloggers would be writers at heart. And blogging provides instant publishing - so it would explain a huge part of the popularity of blogs.
April 14th, 2006 at 1:49 pm
April 14 2006
Having read all the comments on “blogging”, one is reminded of one of Rudayrd Kipling’s notable quotes: “Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
Indeed, in a manner of saying, I suppose “blogging” is arguably a reassertion of the historical trusim that God had created the Pem much before he had created homo sapiens, with due apology to Darwin.
Blogging reenacts the independence and the freedom of creation divested of the entrappings and ramifications of the “rules of the game” of an Editorial Sword or a straight-jacket of the Fourth State. It is a latter-day reassertion of the might and precedence of the Pen over the Sword, as it were!
In fact, blogging enables one to take to one’s wings of imagination in an Icarus-like freedom and create a cosmos of one’s own choice and likings that is profound in gratifying one’s own mind, soul, heart and spirit! It allows one to create and generate outpourings beyond the treadmill of the given Fourth State and it’s given “rules of the game”. “Three Cheers” for blogging.
Nizamuddin Mahmood Selim
Chittagong, Bangladesh
nizammselim@hotmail.com; nizammselim@yahoo.com
April 14th, 2006 at 9:26 pm
Wonderful use of words Nazim. :)
April 17th, 2006 at 5:26 pm
Hey, thanks! By the way, Pratyush, it’s NIZAM, not “Nazim”. Take care. Also, please note the typographical errors: It’s Rudyard Kipling, NOT Rudayrd, and Pen, NOT Pem.
April 17th, 2006 at 11:00 pm
Ah. Wont happen again Nizam. :)
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