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So You Wanna Be A Blogger?

3 non pokery posts in a row. WTF is up with me?

So anyway, I was perusing my Google homepage and came across the following Wiki. Hell, I don't even know what a Wiki really is, but I'm guessing it has something to do with the wikipedia. Here is the link to the Wiki page, but I'm posting it below as well. Looks like someone had a case of the Mondays when they wrote this one. For fun, read it once normally, then go back and read it again, but add the word "poker" before the words blogger and blog. Enjoy...

How to Dissuade Yourself from Becoming a Blogger

What a buzz all the bloggers are making these days! It seems like just about everybody is pouring their musings into a text box. Are you feeling tempted to start a blog of your own? Here are some ways to bypass the trend.

Steps

  1. Find five completely random blogs, and read them daily for a month. After thirty days, you will absolutely dread your self-imposed requirement to read all that dreck. Any blog you create will most likely be on par with what you've been reading. Don't put anyone through that.
  2. Consider that your voice, even if it is truly a good one, is a tiny peep against the massive wave of tripe out there. The odds of anyone you don't already know finding your blog are low.
  3. Write on a regular basis in a text editor instead. If that doesn't satisfy your urge, and you feel that you must post your blog online, then you might just be craving attention and validation--which you'll never truly find in a blog. If you give up on your Wordpad journal after about three days, you'll do the same with a blog that just takes up server space.
  4. Ask yourself if you really have the time to commit to a blog. What about that treehouse you wanted to build? Or the book you wanted to write? Or the car you wanted to fix up? Or the restaurant you wanted to take your significant other to? Or the new career you wanted to pursue? Instead of writing about pretty much nothing, or whining about all the things you wish you were doing instead, start doing something that'd actually be worth writing about. And if it's really worth writing about, you'll be having too much fun doing it to tear yourself away from it.

Tips

  • Rest easy in the knowledge that it's perfectly okay and respectable to not have a blog at all.
  • If attention and validation are what you're looking for, know that you will get neither from blogging. As above, very few people will ever know that your blog (or you, by proxy) exists. The remainder of comments posted to your blog will be sappy treacle, which you won't trust as being sincere anyway.
  • Consider writing on a wiki instead. Unlike most blogs, wikis like Wikipedia and wikiHow are read by millions of people each month. Several wikiHow authors receive "fan mail" messages every day from appreciative readers. In addition, many authors discover that they enjoy the wiki collaborative writing process more than writing in solitude.
  • If you plan to use a blog as a way of keeping in touch with a group of people, such as friends, family, or co-workers, then you may want to make sure it's inaccessible to the public (for the public's sake as well as yours). Using a message board instead of a blog can simplify matters and help keep it interactive.

posted by TripJax @ 5:58 PM,

2 Comments:

At 3:31 PM, Blogger CC said...

You're kidding, right? Poker was only invented to foster poker blogs. Why do you think they keep showing so many poker shows on tv, going on and on about hands and the river and all that nonsense? So more people can become interested, start reading poker blogs, then start blogging themselves. And without blogs we would learn new words through word verification software like awxwj.

 
At 5:43 PM, Blogger Heavy Critters said...

Blogs are gay.

 

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