Comments on: Why Are You Really Blogging? And What Keeps You Blogging?

By: Christopher Borja

Christopher Borja — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:30:58 +0000

Why do I really blog comes to 4 bullets:
- The deep desire to share and take part in let ting people know about God
- To develop my writing or blogging skills
- To share some personal experience and tutorials in putting the blog and making it SEO.
- And to make some money on the side

Thanks! Engaging article.

By: Kim Kinrade

Kim Kinrade — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:52:23 +0000

For me it’s a lot of things:
1) Stories I’ve dying to tell.
2) Getting ideas from other bloggers and readers
3) Experimentation with blog structure and relearning things about the net I forgot.
4) Chance to build a base of readers who can comment on my novels and new writing ideas.
5) Money? I don’t even have Adsense on my blog!

By: Jason Boom

Jason Boom — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:32:34 +0000

As always, a quality, in-depth post from you, Lorelle. You really hammered the point down. I was just musing a little. I like where you took it.

For me, in my infantile state, the blog started as a way to earn extra money, quickly became a great way to have fun and meet new people. And it’s often about the writing itself, as much as it is about the lifestyle. I can spend hours surfing mybloglog.com or entrecard, but some real joy has come from exploring ideas and having great responses through the community.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:01:36 +0000

@Ruel: Personal bloggers are disappearing? Maybe off your radar. Personal blogging is on the rise, however, more and more personal bloggers think their blogs should make money, and this puts a different slant on their blogs, both in design and content. This changes their reasons for blogging. So for you, it sounds like it's the relationships, the networking and comments that mean the most to you and keep you blogging. Lewis: So your work with the food keeps you blogging and the blogging keeps you playing with food? :D

By: Lewis

Lewis — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:26:37 +0000

I love food and learning about food. I never thought about blogging until I started reading other food blogs. I never considered myself much of a writer until I started writing.

Now I can’t stop. Sometimes blogging keeps me interested in what I’m doing.

I blog therefore I am :)

By: Ruel

Ruel — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:44:35 +0000

hi. nice article you got there. if i may add, i blog to remind myself what i’ve done in the past few days. how people affected me. i believe this is the main reason why blogging was created. an online diary, your e-journal. it’s just recently that blogging has been commercialized for one’s gain. it’s worth noting that these breed of personal bloggers are slowly disappearing.