Once upon a time, we were all first time bloggers. A new activity, hobby, leisure, distraction or call it anything you want. Soon we blogged and blogged more, an addiction to blogging. Sometimes we want others or maybe everyone to come and see us, our blogs, our ideas, our stuffs we want to share. But many times we don’t know how to keep or deal with our precious visitors : we lose them. The point where we don’t know what we want from blogging or what to blog? Then we see that first-time blogging love starting to fade away and we feel a bland taste of it : that blogging we loved so much.
So let’s see how can we blog and have that everlasting blogging love.
Cure your addiction
Blogging takes our precious time but just don’t let it take ourselves with it to the extent that we can’t live without thinking of blogging, of those comments, of all those mails that visitors might have sent us, those unreplied questions on the blog and …….all that is involved in blogging. Free yourself from your addiction to blogging by getting yourself through those 7 easy steps to cure your addiction:
- 11pm Means 11pm … Not 2am
- No More … Good Morning, Computer
- Dear Statistics… We’re Seeing Too Much of Each Other
- Post Only Once a Day(if you’re really a diehard one, slow down cowboy)
- Destroy your RSS Feeds(I still can’t do that ;P
- Get Out of the House
- Dump your Broadband(as if the author knows what’s running on a dialup or a 64kps to run this BlogoSquare and my online stuffs mean
To see the full prescription by the doc himself, Martin Neumann from Blog Columnist, just click on the picture below:
Relationship is far greater than popularity
It’s a bit like in college what Cre8d blogger Rachel details in her post, It’s OK not to be popular contrasting Relationship against popularity. We do something and want everyone to know about it, to see how cunning, how “fashion”, how intelligent, how cool we are. We try to become popular : who might not be knowing about the greatz “…….”
Then it’s in thin air, today everybody might know us because of that great stuff we did but when there are no great stuffs to show : there’s no one to come and play with us, to tell us something about what we’ve just did, to encourage us : there’s no relationship.
I think relationship is far greater than popularity. Blog and build around you your small community of visitors, friends and folks bloggers : those you visit regularly, keeping in touch with them. This feels far more enjoyable that having to deal with hundreds and hundreds of comments.
Friendship or relationship builds around. It’s like what SOB Liz Strauss said : “Blogging is Relationship”
Thou shall not be a blog snob
Don’t get me wrong, I ain’t pin-pointing anybody or even thinking of someone while writing this, it’s just a point of discussion.
A blog snob makes it feel like there’s no one like him, no one more important than him. It’s everybody who needs him, not the contrary. A blog snob has his own fans base, he only replies to comments of his friends while for others, this only adds to the counter. He blogs and makes many thing to create the impression that others will always need him and that they should if not they might be missing the next web 2.0. To resume there’s no one compared to him.
So don’t be all of this. I think blogging is ain’t a lonely activity. We need others the same way others might need us.
To see the full list of what makes a blog snob by Ara Pehlivanian, click on the picture below :
Discover your niche subject
It’s not just because everyone is blogging about tech,net or design that you should also be doing the same. Find the subject you love to talk about, to discuss and I think that’s where all the ideas to blog about come from : the love for that particular subject.
If you love to talk about personal subjects then I don’t see why you shouldn’t be blogging about it like a personal journal. I truely think firstly we should be self-satisfied with what we blog before we can ask others whether they are. Discovering our niche subjects helps to keep loving what we do. Could I say everlasting love?
I think that are some stuffs that might get us to love blogging to continue blog & blog. Everlasting blogging love. How about you, what are your little secrets in what get you to blog and love it, to blog without getting it to swallow you, to blog and be self-satisfied with what you did, to blog because you still want to continue blogging.
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Hans, this is just what I needed to read after my last post
Good job ^_^
now we are talking!
zats all 100% Hans!
but still “Made in China”!!!!
who wants a cure for blog addiction!?! are we even addicted!?! No way, José!
bloggin is the real world! lol
bloggin is relationship! i hear that! n it’s all true! but it’s more than that! it’s the answer to za Ultimate question!!! no it’s not 42 as they will get us in believing in Hitchhiker’s Guide to Galaxy….no, me mane, the answer is blogging! lol
@ yvonne:
thanks, I appreciate it. Hope those blogging burden left you
But still sorry I’ve yet to understand what it was about(that last post)? You saw how I shit onto the comments :s Sorry I think I’m like this, emotional stuff is not my cup or more understanding it 
@ waz
you waz
ok it’s alright to spit it out : don’t tell me that you’re not an addict to blogging 
I think everyone the first day was 
hey I’ve yet not fell on that question
what’s that 
When you talked about galaxy, that made me remember a GP comprehension we had
What if some ETs were watching us while playing football, guys running after some ball and how about what if some ETs were watching us blogging 
What might they be thinking we’re doing 
Yeah, I was just in a bad mood that day, Hans
My post was similar to your last one - but instead of talking about keeping readers happy, it was about the PRESSURE of keeping readers happy.
Oh well, needless to say this post helped!
@ Hans: u need to watch the movie or have a read thru za book…it has some funny reference to the ultimate question to life…ET will think we are crazy people who gets addicted to novel stuffs way too easily…i think it’s time to coin a new term for excessive bloggin: BMAO!
@ Yvonne:
wow, i’ve just subscribed to ur feed! n mane, u write some good stuffs!
“the PRESSURE of keeping readers happy.” - i guess you and Hans are taking the blogging business to the next level…but zat’s way too serious for my style…after all, it’s fun n game unless u want to make something out of it (i.e. money or gain some kind of authority)….anyways, keep it up!
Thank you Waz =) Do you want me to unsubscribe your email subscription? (I’m presuming that was you who subscribed a couple of days back?)
Some people take blogging as fun and games, and nothing more than a personal hobby. But yeah, I get obsessive with anything I spend over a month working on.
I’m too perfectionist for my own good
nevaaaaaar
I’ve got it under control, I promise…just a few more hours!
@ Yvonne:
unsubscribe me?
no way…i really like wat i’m reading…so i think i will be a regular at your blog…
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@ Yvonne
Wouldn’t you first of all blog for yourself? I thought it was that.
Ok hope that slicing won’t do harm. I would bring blogs into two categories : those who blog to work(I respect them, I shouldn’t be messing around) and those who blog just to have fun and telling about everything. I didn’t see Adsense sticked somewhere onto your blog that’s why I thought you were those who blogged for fun.
I think the pressure just comes if someone thinks that blogging is working and it’s important. So important to make and feel everywhere shine and appear perfect.
I think visitors won’t think you’re dead if you take some time in replying them/posting things.
Ok as you said it : I’m too glad that post helped else if I continue talking I think that would smell bad.
@ techz
take your time, buddy. I’m with my watch.
Ok I also admit it : i’m also for some hours but that’s only at night. I think blogging is my nightlife. I would go to school, meet people : be a human during the day and late at night enter the world of blogging before going to sleep.
Don’t tell me : a whole day or just the whole weekend?
@ waz
woah! wazzzaaa BMAO. Hey you’re using abbreviation, gotta spit the full term. Ok I’ll guess it:
1) Blogging : Mystery Ambition Obsession
2) Blogging : Master Anything Online
3) Blogging : Misunderstanding And that’s an obligation
4) Blogging : Mobster AntiTactic Operators.
@ everyone else
hey come let’s play. Waz gonna write a new book to ET but yet we have to find the full meaning behind BMAO before he publishes it. That way he would be taking everyone’s definition of it.
Beware of the Mad Angry Orang-outan ? (no, I don’t smoke pot…)
Hah, now I can actually feel good about having few visitors. Thanks
@ Martin
you’re welcome. Thanks for reading through. I’m still trying to apply those own me words :sweat:
There’s so much to blogging that we only have to blog about it to know what we want from it. Wouldn’t we? how to blog…..what to blog…….why I blog……etc…etc
Dump your Broadband(as if the author knows what’s running on a dialup or a 64kps to run this BlogoSquare and my online stuffs mean
haha u cracked me on that hans.Your post is great and so is ur style of blog.I am going to feed it lol…dont destroy ur feed lol.
Can we both add each other on blogroll?
@ Ashish Mohta
yup, I also ran on a 56kbps modem and I can assure you that’s no fun indeed.
Thanks for reading through Ashish. Hope the tips gonna help you and thanks indeed for subscribing.
Sure buddy, you’re already among my SquareLinkers
in the reads section
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Hey, thanks for sharing. I love blogging, and I love the relationships I’m building from it. I’m just “me” at my personal blog, and if people don’t like me, that’s okay. If they do, even better! My other blog is targeted to a particular audience, and I do approach that one differently. Honestly, while I still enjoy it, it’s not as much fun as my personal blog where I get to be “just me.”
Sorry for the rant, but that’s how I feel.
Thanks again.
@ Revka:
thanks for sharing your blogging feelings Revka
sure blogging should be fun first of all….so why else would we do it? even if it’s for monetising a blog, blogging about something you like is vital to keep the everlasting blogging love. If we can give blogging our blogging joy, it can do marvels for us 
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