Comments on: Vote Yes To Proposition 301: Stop Unoriginal Blog Posts

By: edinburgh b&b

edinburgh b&b — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:05:40 +0000

I think conversation is important (no matter how mundane). I also think that believing everyone has something original to say is a bit of an overstatement. Truth is that most people don’t have original thoughts… but you know what? That’s ok and they still should be allowed to speak their minds. I think calling for people to be silenced is a bit elitist. I mean, the idea of defining original thought is a much larger question than I think an A-List SEO Blogger should be tackling.

By: edinburgh b&b

edinburgh b&b — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:05:00 +0000

Michael is that he should stay away from the camera! Really, the ’step away from the keyboard’ vlog is positively boring and adds nothing to the conversation at all.

By: habitat for humanity

habitat for humanity — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:04:31 +0000

I cannot handle the video format. It doesn’t seem to engage me enough as much as plain blogging and writing does. Plus, if it’s boring (as this one was) you can’t skip to see if it gets exciting later on. You have to watch the whole dang thing.

By: habitat for humanity

habitat for humanity — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:03:49 +0000

they aren’t blogs, and their raison d’etre is differnemt. blogs are suppossed to be your thoughts, not others. They are suppossed to be your ideas, or your unique input on other’s ideas.

By: habitat for humanity

habitat for humanity — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:17:25 +0000

I want to see people develop their own voices, their own perspectives, their own interests. I want to see them try out new things, and take a few chances now and then.

By: Uintah Basin Business

Uintah Basin Business — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:12:57 +0000

he idea of defining original thought is a much larger question than I think an A-List SEO Blogger should be tackling.
And who gets to define what is original? I mean, Local TV news just regurgitates what the national news says – should we silence local news?

By: art gift portraits

art gift portraits — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:52:52 +0000

It’s good that the readers are now the gauge whether a blog is good or not. Most of the time bloggers just blog for the sake of blogging. They don’t even realize that their blog is already full of nonsense blah blah.

By: toys

toys — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:16:24 +0000

My personal little tip to Michael is that he should stay away from the camera! Really, the ’step away from the keyboard’ vlog is positively boring and adds nothing to the conversation at all. He may be going on about how if you’re not adding to the conversation you should get lost, but I think he isn’t adding anything through this post. Not only that, but I cannot handle the video format. It doesn’t seem to engage me enough as much as plain blogging and writing does. Plus, if it’s boring (as this one was) you can’t skip to see if it gets exciting later on. You have to watch the whole dang thing.

Please, step away from the camera, and go back to writing.

By: A, B, C-List Ya’ Later! Definition of a C-List Blogger. - Tech Mentat

A, B, C-List Ya’ Later! Definition of a C-List Blogger. - Tech Mentat — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:10:35 +0000

[...] March 23, 2007 // With so much drama in the LBC (Lower-Tier Blogger Community), it’s kind of hard being… well… comfortable about blogging. But rest well my friends. Today I found out (via Kineda) that I am a C-List Blogger and I couldn’t be more happy. Sure, A-List Bloggers get to enjoy the riches, the woman, the notoriety but C-List Bloggers enjoy much more unseen (quiet) benefits. [...]

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:41:48 +0000

“Truth is that most people don’t have original thoughts… but you know what? That’s ok and they still should be allowed to speak their minds.”
If blogging is all be about people “speaking their minds” and not engaging in a conversation, whio will listen?

“And who gets to define what is original? I mean, Local TV news just regurgitates what the national news says – should we silence local news?”
But they aren’t blogs, and their raison d’etre is differnemt. blogs are suppossed to be your thoughts, not others. They are suppossed to be your ideas, or your unique input on other’s ideas.

“But the fact is that it just seemed to cut at the average blogger and that I just don’t get.”
The idea that it is insulting to people is silly. Criticism means to offer a critique, to offer advice on improving. 99.9% of bloggers would improve if they stepped away from the keyboard and thought long and hard about what they are trying to say, to whom and why.

Without a focus on the reasons for blogging, there really is no point.