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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:

1. 11pm Means 11pm … Not 2am
2. No More … Good Morning, Computer
3. Dear Statistics… We’re Seeing Too Much of Each Other
4. Post Only Once a Day(if you’re really a diehard one, slow down cowboy)
5. Destroy your RSS Feeds(I still can’t do that ;P
6. Get Out of the House
7. 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.