Sunday 10 January 2010

The art of blogging

This blog kinda died within a few months.
Weird, if you look at it like two at first, then three, people started blogging full enthousiasm, sarcasm, motivated, and all full of stories. So how did this blog end up in the endless void of the internets?

It always crosses my mind when something happens like: "Oh, gee, I could really make a good, funny story about what just happend.". But you don't because there's no computer nearby, or there's no time to actually refine the idea you just had, and so on.
So what is it then that people can blog all the time? How comes these people have those amazing blogs with sometimes over a thousand entries. Or an everyday story. Where do they find the time and energy to write every day, but most of all: How do they always come with cool stories?

That brings me to the next set of questions: Blog readers.

I sometimes have days passing by where nothing intresting happens. Sometimes I have days where one good story after another comes by.
For me I find it really hard to keep interest in a blog which nobody reads. How do you get people to read your blog? To read your boring life in this boring world where everything seems normal, and where people twitter about whiping their ass in the toilet.

Where do blog readers come from, and how do they get intrested in my useless meaningless life. Ok, I got to admit, I'm a nerd, and I can almost every day write some story about something technical, though that would also get boring and would probably result in me posting about my life more than about computers. Not that I can't write more about computers, but that I find my life more important than my computer(I'm not saying all nerds are caring more about their computers). So okay, you can tell your friends like: Hey dude, I got a blog. You really should read it.
Then, if you're lucky that friend is like: "Oh, really?" and you go: "Yea, really.", he goes: "What's it about", so then you explain him what it's about, and then you might get him intrested.
But 9 out of 10 people will just say: "Ok, I'll read it sometime", which basicly means: "STOP BEING SO GEEKY AND DRINK MORE BEER, DROP THE SUBJECT AND SAY SOMETHING FUNNY INSTEAD".

Now you can get all geeky and do some google seo stuff on your blog so you will actually get found if someone searched for 'i want to read a boring story', but I figure there's not much people that will google it(There isn't even a blog or blogpost like that!).

So I decided to call this post the art of blogging because of all these unanswered questions. There's something about this art I might just not/never get. So for the sake of I want to have a famous and cool blog as well: The art of blogging is the authors with their infinite sarcasm, endless stories, and of course the cool layout that we don't have here because I'm 1: too lazy to make one, 2: don't have time for it, 3: isn't necessary because nobody ever reads this shit anyway.

Period.