Expressing Ourselves with Our Blogs?
Today I read an article about motivation of bloggers: http://thereasoner.com/blog/thoughts-on-whether-bloggers-blog-simply-to-vent-emotions/ . That is an interesting theme, and goes into the deep motivations of people who blog.
One of visitors, Svend, put his categorisation of blogs in the following way:
5 % of blogs are very informative having relative information to someone out there who is looking for it at that time
20% of blogs are somewhat informative; meaning it is not something that I would check back to regularly for information
50% of blogs are online journals where people have a group of readers or friends who write articles about their lives so others can get updated daily on their thoughts and events that occur.
25% of blogs are vent blogs where people write about something that bothers them all the time and these are the least visited of all. Unless you find one that you would agree with. I usually never go back to these.
I agree with Svend, with little alteration that majority of blogs are not read by any tangible number of people, and thus, when authors think that their work is not valued or read, they quit. Darren Rowse says that the average lifetime for a blog is 6 months, according to his experience. I think that blog is a challenge for me, some test for my internal integrity, and ability to express myself out loud. If I fail, I will persist, and find new and new ways to attract readership.
At the moment I do not produce extensive research as DoshDosh does, but am motivated to do so. I like in-depth articles, they bring a sense of education in reading a blog.