A question occurred to me as I spent my spare time musing about life, the universe and everything. If a good blog is one that is both informative and frequent, how do you marry the informative part with the frequent part? Surely the more often you write the less informative the material? Unless of course your blogging about something which a) you care about b) is constantly changing or updating c) covers everything.
I have enjoyed my initial foray into blogging, but for me (and my *cough* readers) to get the most out of my efforts I think I need to feel impassioned about the subject, and whilst I enjoy learning about online media and understand it’s relevance to me and my chosen career, it doesn’t get my creative juices going as it were.
So perhaps if I were to blog on an issue that is closer to my heart the whole frequency, interesting/informative thing, might be less of a problem?
But with the apparent death of blogging thanks to new forms of micro-blogs is there much point in me persisting?
I think there is, not because I believe that blogs will ever take over or properly compete in the news market, but because they can offer a great means of comment and analysis as displayed by my two favourite bloggers, Betsan Powys and Nick Robinson.
Just a quick note before I have to leave, I must confess to being a fully fledged Twitter convert. For spreading news fast and creating a good contacts base I think it’s really affective, if a little addictive. It also helps that one of my personal heroes Stephen Fry is probably the most active Twitterer in the World, except for this girl maybe.
I have enjoyed my initial foray into blogging, but for me (and my *cough* readers) to get the most out of my efforts I think I need to feel impassioned about the subject, and whilst I enjoy learning about online media and understand it’s relevance to me and my chosen career, it doesn’t get my creative juices going as it were.
So perhaps if I were to blog on an issue that is closer to my heart the whole frequency, interesting/informative thing, might be less of a problem?
But with the apparent death of blogging thanks to new forms of micro-blogs is there much point in me persisting?
I think there is, not because I believe that blogs will ever take over or properly compete in the news market, but because they can offer a great means of comment and analysis as displayed by my two favourite bloggers, Betsan Powys and Nick Robinson.
Just a quick note before I have to leave, I must confess to being a fully fledged Twitter convert. For spreading news fast and creating a good contacts base I think it’s really affective, if a little addictive. It also helps that one of my personal heroes Stephen Fry is probably the most active Twitterer in the World, except for this girl maybe.
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