{"id":328,"date":"2007-12-16T16:35:39","date_gmt":"2007-12-16T23:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=328"},"modified":"2007-12-16T16:35:39","modified_gmt":"2007-12-16T23:35:39","slug":"blogging-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2007\/12\/blogging-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"BLOGGING: Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"

V<\/span>ia Dennis Jerz<\/a>,  at Wired: Top 10 Tips for Blogging<\/a> from Jorn Borger, and this one in particular:<\/p>\n

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2. You can certainly include links to your original thoughts, posted elsewhere … but if you have more original posts than links, you probably need to learn some humility.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Man, I knew I was doing something wrong but I didn’t realize it was a personality flaw at its base.<\/p>\n

Obviously yes, one of the main purposes of weblogging is to create an interconnection of links that relate and bring in new ideas and discovery.<\/p>\n

But how, if no one is providing new material?  What’s so great about access to all information without an increase in information that blossoms from it?  I do enjoy the weblogs that keep us up to date by providing sort of a clearing house for linkage, doing the circuit and culling down to the best and posting these.  Sure saves me a lot of time.  On the other hand, one thing I’ve noticed lately is that even using Google, the search brings up a good amount of places that are merely more clearinghouses for the term.  Links to links to links. Sounds good, but it’s merely frustrating when you’re looking for an answer instead of just more places to look for it.<\/p>\n

Maybe I just see weblogs as more diverse in their potential and think that the freedom and voice it has given to millions shouldn’t come with somebody else’s rules applied.  For me, weblogs provide long or short bursts of reading in a variety of topics and moods.  Sort of the Reader’s Digest for the world outside the bathroom.<\/p>\n

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V<\/span>ia Dennis Jerz,  at Wired: Top 10 Tips for Blogging from Jorn Borger, and this one in particular: 2. You can certainly include links to your original thoughts, posted elsewhere … but if you have more original posts than links, you probably need to learn some humility. Man, I knew I was doing something wrong […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}