So I was reading this article on "Bloggery" on Social Media Today that broke down bloggery into 5 different types of blogs and how they in turn become bloggery. It helps to read it to understand more on my point:
http://socialmediatoday.com/jacey-gulden/1329951/content-marketers-beware-bloggery
Ironically enough as I was reading this I was hoping, "oh dear God PLEASE don't let me fall into bloggery, that's so awkward". Then, it hit me, don't you think maybe all blogging is bloggery in some fashion? Defined in the article, bloggery is blogging snobbery- that comes from studying other people's ideas and then providing your own opinion about it in a possibly critical way. AKA what fashion blogs are about, cooking blogs, cleaning blogs, even informative blogs provided by businesses.
Then, the writer goes on to talk about how she used to not respect journalists and yatta yatta to then describe blogs as:
The How-To
The Rant
The Name Dropper
The Word Dropper
The Uber-Obscure Topic
Hmmmm...well wasn't her post just a rant? Or Uber-Obscure topic?
It's okay girl, mine's more of a rant too with a little word dropper sometimes. And I have no idea what I'm talking about half the time, I just like to write about it!
Back to my point: nowadays, she's right. There are tons of junk blogs that talk about random stuff that most people do not even care to look at. For instance, I wrote a blog during my 6 weeks in London this summer so that my family could follow my steps. Now, do I think that someone in California might enjoy it? No. But it wasn't for them. Essentially blogging doesn't have to be for anyone. They can be rants, they can be how-tos, or they could just be someone's opinions. Plus, they can all be bloggery. People write blogs for others to read and formulate a group of similar ideas and opinions. Someone who hates to cook probably shouldn't read cooking blogs. You catch my drift?
See now I'm ranting..
Anyways, reading her article made me somewhat upset. What's wrong with bloggery? Isn't that some point of blogging?
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