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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Oh, yes; there's a lot of crap on the internet.
There are two kinds of blog/vlogs however: the informative ones, and the 'give me attention' ones.
The former are, for example:
- The Digital Reader by our own Nate (Do I have that correct?)
- Blogs where people post progress on piano playing (what pieces they practiced, why, what went well, what went wrong)
- Blogs where people post reviews, cook receipts, and so on
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Yes, but the type of blogs you are discussing actually have value. They are people who are sharing information that other people ACTUALLY WANT or need. They possess (I'm still contemplating the piano thing, but...) information or facts or data, or they have specialized knowledge, and share that. FINE. I have zip, zein, zilch, nada issue with that.
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These people make those blogs because they've got stuff to say that might be useful to someone. I don't mind if people earn something through advertisemtns or maybe even affiliate links, because I get useful information out of those blogs. Still, I mostly don't follow them, but find them through Google when I'm looking for something and read a part of it.
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We agree.
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The attention grabbing ones are people who think they're worth it to be followed even though they don't say anything useful (they're not), or vlogs on YouTube where people do stupid/unnecessary/dangerous/hilarious-that's-not-hilarious crap just for the views and advertisement income.
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BUT, that's the thing. These are the vast bulk of the effluvia flooding the Net. When I first looked at blogging, in something like 2007-8, at the time, Google's data (from Blogger) was that THEN, 8 million people a day were starting blogs.
Eight Million Blogs, A DAY?
Seriously, do any of you even know 8 friends, whose blogs you'd read? Never mind 80, 800, 8,000 or 8
million? I don't. I mean, sure, I have professional acquaintances, whose posts on this or that I'll read, but...8
freaking million. A day.
I'd love to know Google's figures on abandoned blogs. I'll betcha it's mind-blowing. Hell, I wish I had a quarter or even a dime, or maybe a PENNY, for every abandoned blog. And then another quarter for every worthless one.
Not to mention, the ratio of people who don't blog, to blogs. As in the pro rata population of non-bloggers, to blogs. I'll bet that is an interesting figure.
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