The different type of blogger

Hi All,

People do blog about anything: from their pets to high end politics & religion or science fiction, or how bad Dr Who and Star Trek have become. Length does seem to be important and to me is indicative as to whom you are trying to get to read your blog- as well as the person writing it!

 Of course Twitter has changed blogging immensely, in that short snappy and out of context stuff can be churned out quicker than cheap beer, but the cultural attitude toward time has also changed things. Today people are celebrities and influencers for a timescale that seems like a flash in the pan, as are people’s concentration and willpower on a particular topic.

In terms of blogging this means that people can still write entire monologues/essays or short stories /novellas online, but how many people actually have the time to read this, if working? If you are working then the only time you have to yourself is that daily commute to and from work, in which case you will want shorter and more to the point pieces.

By contrast students and retired people, while on the opposite end of the age spectrum will, in theory, have more time on their hand, but who can say as to whether either of this group has the will to go around reading a large amount of stuff on the internet.

There is a caveat to all of this in so much as it seems that there are actually people who spend all day, every day on the internet and that’s all they do.

Then there is the most curious of all blogs, most of which are already semi successful. It doesn’t matter whether the writer does a paragraph or a monograph or on what subject. You will get a group of people who simply want to hang around the chat thread and make up comments based upon their own thoughts and whims or more often their own pet ideas or politics.

To my mind I think bloggers should always stick to their core beliefs and write for themselves. If you don't then you end up becoming a newservice and therefore may as well cash in a become a full time journalist for a newspaper. And get paid for the work!