Seriously I can’t understand why the whole thing turned into some economy course. All the analysis are really nice and interesting and all, but I wonder if I am the only person in this world who does not care about the demand of readers and whether people even read my blog.
Of course I am grateful for all your comments and I wish I had more of them, but I’m not going to post about other anime, work on my postings or post intelligent editorial stuff. First, I am hoping for people to read them who have, say, similar tastes as I do. Second, if I want discussion, I go into forums where people are talking with each other and answer each other, not one person stating something and everybody just comments mostly without getting any answers at all. And lastly, I don’t think my editorial stuff would be of serious interest for anybody so that I would feel my work on it was worth it (I totally agree with Mike on this). I mean hey, would anybody read an ‘editorial’ about the controversial morality of Death Note?
I don’t want my e-penis grow longer (my boyfriend teases me enough by saying it is too huge for him *g*) and if being part of the anime blogger community means to have to abide to rules like “Do not do episode summaries” and “Your postings should be more diverse”, then no thank you, I would take my blog off Nano again.
PS. Oh yeah, I’m totally unable to post funny stuff, as some of you might have noticed. That’s the only thing I feel sorry I cannot provide to the few people who read this blog *hrr*
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I blog because I have something say, not to please complete strangers on internet and waste hours when I could spend that time doing something productive.
Posted 14 Nov 2006 at 13:54 CE(S)T ¶There are a few reasons why I blog:
1) I’m bored and need to waste some time.
2) I need to inflate my ego and make myself feel important. An E-penis can never be big enough!
3) I actually have something to say. Other people may or may not want to hear what I have to say, but that’s unimportant.
As you can see, none of those concern other people. But, when you’re out there writing, and there are people reading your stuff and supporting you, I feel that there’s an obligation, however small, to fulfill some of their desires.
It’s great to be writing at THAT, because there are such a large number of writers there, that every base are covered and you can find almost anything you care to look for.
Posted 14 Nov 2006 at 14:29 CE(S)T ¶What I wanna know is when all this turned into one big competition. Improve here, improve there, do this and do that to increase your amount of visitors. What the hell, people are “a 100 years to early” to tell me why and how I should blog. If I have something I want to say then I post it, if not then I don’t. I don’t try to exert myself for the sake of getting more comments or trafic. Like you said, if people that read your site has the same tastes and thoughts then comments will come by themselves and to me comments are a reward not a goal.
(btw I love you germans with your german send buttons^^ )
Posted 14 Nov 2006 at 15:30 CE(S)T ¶Blogging is serious business to those on animenano and the like. They’re there because they have lotsa in-depth info on the anime industry to distribute to the masses.(bragging rights)
The casual bloggers, on the other hand, post whatever interest them. It’s just a hobby, and they answer to no one except themselves.
>> Like you said, if people that read your site has the same tastes and thoughts then comments will come by
themselves and to me comments are a reward not a goal.
Very true. Just having views is good enough for me.
Posted 14 Nov 2006 at 16:07 CE(S)T ¶The net works in cycles. The bloggers need to go through this every 8 months.
Posted 14 Nov 2006 at 17:37 CE(S)T ¶I’m glad apparently nobody felt offended (yet?). Thanks ^^ I know that there are people who wanted to make their blog popular and big from the beginning (like tj) and who do really well - I think that’s great because I like reading their stuff, I just wanted to point out that it’s nothing for me and that I don’t want to be lumped into the anime blogger community like this.
Seriously, I am feeling a little bit bad because I feel absolutely no obligation towards my readers - and it’s not like any reader has ever wanted anything specific from me, isn’t it? The only thing I feel I should do is revamp my blogroll XD
Interesting enough, real life is “serious business” to me and the reward (money, good grades, friends, whatever) are not only a reward but a goal to work for *haha*
@Matte: Hey, the “Send”-button was totally unintentional! I just happen to use a blog template by a german guy who apparently messed up with the languages. But since this button entertains people like you, I will try to keep it in my future blog designs *g*
@MrMayat: How come this is the first time I am seeing your site? O.o
@tj: 8 months, are you kidding? I thought it’s a lot more often XD And to be exact, I think this is my very first statement on the “why and how to blog” isssue.
Posted 14 Nov 2006 at 17:53 CE(S)T ¶The whole reason why I did (and still do) this is because I thought I could one-up Jason Miao.
And in a sense, I kinda did. Still going strong, though.
Posted 14 Nov 2006 at 19:09 CE(S)T ¶>> How come this is the first time I am seeing your site?
Erm.. because I just started blogging 2 weeks ago? I don’t like to advertise much. Just the odd comment here and there.
Posted 15 Nov 2006 at 08:26 CE(S)T ¶BTW, thanks for adding me to your blogroll. Danke(?)
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