{"id":3361,"date":"2009-08-04T21:28:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T04:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikoto.wordpress.com\/?p=3361"},"modified":"2009-08-04T21:28:42","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T04:28:42","slug":"why-do-we-blog-another-metablogging-post-by-yours-truly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/why-do-we-blog-another-metablogging-post-by-yours-truly\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do we blog? Another metablogging post by yours truly."},"content":{"rendered":"

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To show how cool our anime wallpapers\/practically-icon-less desktops are?<\/p>\n

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By the way, this post will be filled with E7 pictures because I don't have pictures of bloggers\/blogging.<\/p><\/div>\n

Let me just get this out there:\u00a0I blog for my readers, not for myself.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The whole point of blogging for me is to create posts that are enjoyable for both me and my audience.\u00a0 Sure, I might find things like Gintama episode\u00a038 (which I watched yesterday, by the way) to be hilarious, but why share it via blogging if nobody else cares about it?<\/p>\n

Recently, I’ve stumbled across a few “blogging for myself” vs. “blogging for the fanboys<\/span> audience” posts on several blogs, and I’m amazed at how many people say that they blog for themselves above their readers.\u00a0 I get the logic behind it, but I… well, I don’t get the logic behind it, really.<\/p>\n

What’s the point of posting episodics of old series when everybody has already forgotten?\u00a0 What’s the point of watching Bakemonogatari when it sucks?\u00a0 What’s the point of posting about\u00a0Zan Sayonara, Zetsubou Sensei\u00a0when all the ignorant fools of anime bloggers out there aren’t\u00a0watching the series?\u00a0 What’s the point of making a visual novel when fangzhao isn’t in it?\u00a0 What’s the point of sharing your views when nobody cares?\u00a0 (Hmmn, I think a few other things might’ve gotten mixed in there.)<\/p>\n

But really, I don’t see the point of sharing your views if nobody cares.\u00a0 I was naive once, too.\u00a0 I\u00a0made lots of posts about Akikan that I’d really like to delete right now, except for the fact that it would mess up\u00a0the post count I typed on the last post (but then again, having a higher comment:post ratio might make me look more popular…).\u00a0 Nobody cares about Akikan.\u00a0 I don’t even care about Akikan.\u00a0 Likewise, I don’t think anybody cares about a post that’s for the blogger instead of for the readers.<\/p>\n

Take the previous four paragraphs for example. \u00a0How much of that was dedicated to humor and inside jokes and how much of that was dedicated to actual content? \u00a0“A crapload” and “what content?” are the correct answers.<\/p>\n

Though on the other hand, there’s always the third option of blogging both for yourself and for the readers simultaneously. \u00a0Of course, being the awesome blogger that I am, I almost always manage to accomplish this.<\/p>\n

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Since the first half of this post did not full answer the question in the post title, here’s more of me waxing philosophical on blogging.<\/p>\n

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Uh-oh, it looks like I'm running out of actual content. I guess I'll just make this post look longer with this picture.<\/p><\/div>\n

The idea of “I blog to express my views” is essentially the foundation of blogging itself. \u00a0Yet how many of us really blog just to express our views? \u00a0I’m in aniblogging more for the aniblogger network than for simply expressing my views. \u00a0I can’t imagine what anime blogging would be like if 1) there were no comments section or if 2) my blog were so repulsive that I would get no comments. \u00a0The essence of anime blogging lies in the blogger’s ability to visit other blogs, see what other people feel about anime, and troll<\/span> post on his or her own blog about the same subject so that people can relate and\/or \u00a0flame.<\/p>\n

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wait dis is teh rong pic lols!1<\/p><\/div>\n

Okay, I can’t drag this post on any longer than this, even with more pictures. \u00a0In order for my blog to look like it’s popular beyond belief, here’s a question to prompt lots of comments (hopefully): So why do you<\/strong> blog? \u00a0Or don’t?<\/p>\n

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I'm not just a Eurekaist.<\/p><\/div>\n

P.S.: I’ll be on vacation for a week starting tomorrow => NO BLOGGING FOR A WEEK CAUSE I DON’T LIKE TO DO WORK ON VACATION KK??\/<\/p>\n

God, this post was one big display of how lazy I can get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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