Quirky Little Blogging Truths 3
Feb25
As I was doing my morning reading, I found two articles that really piqued my interest and made me feel more involved in all my blogging commitments and appreciate the community and various aspects of blogging.
10 Reasons Why a Blog is Better than a Website
… and …
9 Things that Drive a Blogger Crazy
Each article gives some really in depth truths about the nature of blogging. You will laugh, you will sigh, you will nod your head in agreement.
Now, I must get back to work, enjoy!
Both posts had some points that I could identify with. The “10 Reasons Why A Blog Is Better Than a Website,” stated that “Blogs Help Build Author and Visitor Relationship.” That is one of the most valuable aspects of a blog to me. When people get to know you through your written work they become like extended family giving their input and support.
The “Nine Things That Drive Bloggers Crazy,” post didn’t really resonate with me. Most of the things mentioned don’t really disturb me.
However, the “Odd Nasty Comment Or Insult,” now that rang a familiar bell with me. It has only happened to me twice, but on each occasion each person chose to leave a truly vile message on my blog. I use Haloscan so I was able to delete it , block the user and report it as spam. Never heard from them again. But it is quite disturbing. Especially since these blogs become such personal projects.
After operating both websites and blogs, I must agree that blogging is much easier. Good work on posting these two articles.
I certainly wasn’t nodding my head at the “10 Reasons Why a Blog is Better than a Website”. I thought much of it was incorrect.
For example:
“They’re easier to setup, easier to manage, have thousands of free themes and plugins to install“
How the heck is a blog easier to setup than a static site? A blog is much more complicated, hence will inherently take more time to setup.
Easier to manage? You can manage them in exactly the same manner most people do their blogs.
AFAIK there are just as many (probably more) themes/skins available for static sites as there are for blogs. And by plugins I’m assuming they’re referring to WordPress, in which case most of them can be used for static sites anyway – if you use WordPress to power your static site.
And my bigggest criticism is … a blog is a website!