Blog co-Author: Windy
Over the past two years, well not exactly two years because I stopped blogging sometime in September 2009 and returned here with a Comment on February 22nd., at Lainy’s Post.
One thing led to another and that applied to publishing articles here at Lainy’s invitation. I have returned only to find in a larger circumstance, the same old attitudes and blogging mindset.
What do I refer to?
These are observations made from published articles as well as from Comments submitted at various Blogs:
1. The myopic bloggers who can’t see anything further than within a 6 inch perimeter around themselves. Regrettably these bloggers fail to recognize that there are no boundaries that separate individuals in the blogging community.
2. The shameful tactless bloggers who manifest their bickering and obtuse references when all it takes is to call a spade, a spade. Brevity is the soul of wit.
3. The every way but win bloggers who find that it is beyond them to accept that Providence bestowed on them only one zillionth of intellectual capability.
4. The pestilence bloggers who can’t think of anything else better to do than spend their time spamming in every way conceivable.
5. The I, Me and My egotist bloggers who inscrutably find more happiness by engorging on pride much to their own ruin.
6. The diplomat bloggers who are neither here nor there in any given circumstance. They are in a state of self denial about the fact that popularity is fickle.
7. The hypocrite bloggers who thrive on back stabbing. We’ve actually lost good bloggers who stopped blogging because they were victims of this kind of bloggers.
8. The pharisaic bloggers who denounce what other bloggers do when the former has nothing better to offer by suggestion.
9. The all amiable YES bloggers who sweetly agree to whatever is placed before them.
10. The omniscience bloggers who pick on just about anything, even when there is a typo error or assail any effort to theorize.
The above list is not all that I have observed since I returned to blog as a Blog Co-Author at Lainy’s Musings.
There is a marked deterioration in the fare that bloggers commit themselves. There is a significant reduction in the number of what one would assay as a blogger who is worth his publications.
Fortunately, for the old fashioned SAHM (Stay At Home Mom) bloggers who once were the target of blog critics, their material still continues with predictable consistency when compared to Bloggers number 1 to 10 above. Blogverbially then, it’s so true that “the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world”. More power to our SAHMs!
The blogging sparkle has been subdued considerably with the lack luster management of Social Networks (MyBlogLog, Entrecard, BlogCatalog and a few others that fizzled out).
What is the rave today at Blogosphere?
???????????????
Yes, at this moment, I can’t point to any that ‘s worth mentioning.
Every blogger is too involved with himself and there is a dearth of creativity, imagination and passion; qualities that are prerequisites and only found in a very small fraction in the blogging community.
You dispute that?
Well, take a look at what is flaunted at Twitter for 10 minutes. You’d say that’s a poor sampling. Review it randomly.
Go to Facebook and make your own assay where members have become bored and idle, they’d rather play games there than interact. We’re talking about adults who are receding to infantalism.
Enough said..so what is inherent with quality blogging?
Whatever be the Blog’s theme, be it a gallery of photos, the culinary arts, travel, folklore, education, literature, child care, politics, social issues, medicines and remedies, personal “diary”, the arts and crafts, the entertainment industry, economics, money management, home care and design, hobbies, sports, health care, faith, music, story telling, comedy relief, fiction, electronics and gadgetry, photography, you name it, even PAID POST too…
The value-added factor to the essence of blogging and being a Blogger is to impart, to exchange, to share and elicit discussions and opinions with those who have a shared interest.
R E C E L
General Santos Time
Oh… this post widely impacts my very self in this stage of my blogging journey! This left me wandering if I am still of worth in the blogosphere. I think even if I am not anymore, I still will continue to run my blogs though, as long as I have the time. Only that these days, uninvited problems sort of ruin my system. I even would think often that I’d rather leave my blogs unattended. My problems right now are very personal and sensitive that I just can’t share it in the world wide web, and sure, it gives me a feeling of idleness because my mind is very much affected as much as my heart. :(( Plus, in the Fall, I will become a full-time student (THANK GOD FOR THIS!) already so one can expect a lesser updates from my blog by that time.
Anyhow, thank you for this post Windy. This leaves me awakened as to what I really am blogging about. And believe me, I found myself dumbfounded!
.-= Recel´s last blog ..My Sanity Keeper =-.
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Windy Reply:
April 19th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Hi Recel,
You’re doing just fine at your Blog. There is no reason for you to be hesitant about your blogging worthiness.
Although there is no comparison to what you are presently having to cope with, I had my fair share in having to deal with issues during the last quarter of 2009. In my case, I took a drastic decision to stop blogging altogether.
I wish you grace and enlightenment while you resolve the pains that you’re now dealing with. It is great that you have a strong desire to pursue your study. I wish you success and accomplishment.
Honestly, I wrote this article more as a reflection of about having partially resumed blogging for almost two months. I still will not manage and run a Blog as I once did.
God Bless you Always!
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Hi Lain, I’m so amused by the “terms” you used—sounds intellectual…hehehehe.
I find a lot of no. 2 —–everywhere.
I’m guilty of using Twitter to post my blog updates only…I don’t find any thing useful in Twitter other than that.
.-= bingkee´s last blog ..SUNDAY THOUGHTS (GOOGLE ADSENSE, MOVIE & VOTE A BEAUTY) =-.
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Windy, your post is so insightful. I have only been blogging since last fall, but I have seen these different type of bloggers that you list. I hope I can just post a blog that is amusing (at times) and true to myself.
You are right about Facebook. I get so many requests to play this game or that game, very tiring. I need to adjust my settings on it to block those requests.
.-= Dave DeWall´s last blog ..The Six Dollar X-Ray in the Philippines! =-.
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Windy Reply:
April 20th, 2010 at 6:49 pm
Well Dave DeWall, it just happened to be some introspective thinking that day. And my perception hasn’t changed much since when I stopped blogging several months ago.
I’ve always lost my way inside Facebook’s webpage. Wish I knew how.
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Oh …my bad….it’s you Windy…I thought it was Lainy….minsan kasi nakakalito kung sino ang author ng post coz sometimes I missed the tiny font -sized author’s name.
Now I think I am not worthy….I’m gonna stop blogging as soon as I’m done with what I want to do. The only reason I’m continuing to blog is the “extra money” I earn because I’m unemployed. After doing that “thing I’m supposed to do”—-I’m done with blogging and instead start writing the book I so long wanted to be finished.
anyway, enjoy the rest of your week and be blessed.
.-= bingkee´s last blog ..SUNDAY THOUGHTS (GOOGLE ADSENSE, MOVIE & VOTE A BEAUTY) =-.
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Windy Reply:
April 20th, 2010 at 6:51 pm
Ha ha ha Bingkee,
Yeah, sometimes our eyes play tricks on us.
Sounds interesting that you’re going to write a book. Let us know when you’re done. We’d like to read it too.
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i am not sure where to consider my self ^^
.-= bluedreamer´s last blog ..SIMPLIFIED EXPLANATION ON HOW BLOG IDOL WORKS =-.
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Windy, parang natamaan ata ako nung sinabi mo sa post ni Twerlyn na WE DON’T READ TO LEARN HOW TO WRITE UNLESS WE WANT TO PLAGIARIZE.
My opinions about reading to learn how to write worked for me….and I’ve never never never plagiarize. Why should I? I read because I wanted to learn how to write the way I want it to be written in such a way that is “captivating” as the way my favorite writers captivate me when I read their works.
I thought natapos na etong issue na eto. Yea , Twerlyn has her own opinion and I also have my own opinion. But I also want to let her know the perks of reading in relation to writing —-it’s up to her if she takes it or not, or even believes it or not.
It’s your opinion that for you “reading does not improve” writing—-maybe it does not work for you. It worked for me. How else would I know my writing is good enough if I have no standard of comparison? How else would I know I needed to improve if I cannot achieve the standards of the “ideals of good writing” done by great authors. Writing and writing for me (or practicing writing does not really help in my method of writing—–I have no comparison, I have no inspiration, I have no set of ideals, etc.) If that is the case, I’m just writing like a diary—–like talking to myself—which is the worst writing of all—>writing like talking to yourself.
I had sent you an email about this and even placed the links on the comments.
It now makes me so dubious of myself reading that my method is wrong—that people try to disregard that my method does not really help. It makes me feel like I’m not doing it right —that reading does not help in my writing though it helped me in my formative years of writing.
That is why I felt so downcast about this post—–I want to give up blogging because people think that I write great and then when they found out that my piece of advice to them on how to improve writing—is not the “method” and is wrong—-just like you said that reading does not improve writing (which defies and refutes my piece of advice to others)—it makes me kinda not credible on what I’m doing.
Honestly, I never , never felt so bad about my writing in my whole 35 years of writing (15 years of that doing professional writing), until I came across this post and then your comment on Twerlyn’s blog.
Since that post and now your comment, it has made me decide to quit blogging soon—(of course aside from the fact that my blog is always attacked by morons). It made me feel so insecure about my ability to write and my credibility because —-if I say what kind of advice that I would give to budding writers—i cannot say anything except “Read” —because that’s the only advice I can ever give to them.
And then my “piece of advice” is deemed worthless—-what does that speak of me? I’m a writer who has no credibility.
.-= bingkee´s last blog ..MADE IN AMERICA: BARBIE DOLL =-.
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Windy Reply:
April 24th, 2010 at 10:57 am
Bingkee,
That’s enough of your moaning and groaning.
You are entitled to think what you wish. And don’t stoop to play on passing on guilt emotions for decisions that you take for whatever you wish to do with blogging.
If you are so childish that what I opine affects your desire to blog, it is your decision and has nothing to do with what is my opinion.
I have disputed your arguments, lengthily and you have failed to respond to my last refutation.
Of course as you say here, “practicing writing does not really help in my method of writing—–I have no comparison, I have no inspiration, I have no set of ideals, etc.”
Exactly, when you do not have an idea what to write, you read and then you PLAGIARIZE the thinking level of what you read from other authors.
One writes what one thinks. One does not write for the reason for what some others think.
READING and LEARNING as I have ably explained to you in my last Comment are two different issues. You weave in and out with these two words to confuse and to support your theory.
Like I started here, enough of your groaning and moaning. No one is stopping you from reading. Read till you drop dead for all I care. It isn’t my life.
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Before I forget, it’s like you’re saying that my advice is telling other writers to plagiarize. That my advice or tip is ridiculously absurd, ineffective, bullshit and crappy. I felt so demeaned by what you said there in Twerlyn’s post.
.-= bingkee´s last blog ..MADE IN AMERICA: BARBIE DOLL =-.
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Windy Reply:
April 24th, 2010 at 10:59 am
Bingkee,
DO NOT DISTORT AND MANIPULATE WHAT IS SAID. UNLESS YOU READ BUT FAIL TO UNDERSTAND BECAUSE YOU’RE SO FILLED WITH SELF PITYING!
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