What's A Blog? How Many Types of Blogs are there? What's the Best Type of Blog?

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this is a f*cking cougar

I get asked this so many times by absolutely no one so I wanted to explain what most blogs are or at least what type of content it ‘should’ contain, such as this blog.
Please understand, everything here is copyrighted. Everything.

Also, everything in “double quotes” is the “actual name”.
Everything in ‘single quotes’ is almost the “actual name”.

BLOGS 101

Most blogs are “mysteries”. Great big mysteries that only one person can understand -the owner. The owner usually references their blog and says you should check their site, and when you do you realize it’s incoherent nonsense so you click on a link on his site. Here’s a good example, this blog is about design, it’s also about comics, it’s also about usability, it’s also about weird stuff, but all this stuff is just about me for me and maybe for someone who may or may not be interested in something about me but in all probability landed here looking for an answer only to be baffled by the mystery of how they landed here and 2 minutes later leave using the back button.

Most other blogs are “advertising”. Like most blogs that are mysteries, blogs that are advertising are only really understood by one person -the owner. This is why they are hugely popular because people think they’ve cracked a “mystery” they’ve been searching for hours for, read through a post only to click an ad for crap -that’s also owned -by the owner. Or an affiliate. Ahem.

Then there’s the “other” blogs that just recycle content. These blogs are really, really different from “advertising” blogs since they use known networks, like Reuters or other Press Release site to find information, then -the owner or someone on that site or some software retypes the information EXCEPT this time they may just copy and paste one part of an article and then they use the Cue De Twat and add their “tidbits”.

Then there’s “tidbits” blogs, which is a hybrid of “advertising” and “others” but all they do is pull in their tidbits but they call these feeds. They look legit too, until you click something then you get sad.

You can tell when a blog is good because you are not sad. If you feel sad after reading a blog or indifferent or unchanged then that’s a bad blog. In many respects the only way to fix a bad blog is to sneeze at the monitor then wipe it clean.

Your blog should be like a cougar. It should represent you, for you and only you. It should be your grand mystery and not trying to solve someone elses problem. If you are trying to solve someone elses problems you have a forum.

Lastly, if all you do is comment on other peoples twatty articles with your opinion, great now you have a blog that is considered “limbo” but may also be referenced as “assbo”.

You’ll know when your blog is good when you get one unsolicited comment that’s not porn. You’ll know when your blog is great when you get two comments. But you’ll know when your blog is awesome when you just write because you don’t care what anyone else thinks and you are doing it for you -and many leave comments.

In the end “don’t sell out”. Then you have a “blog”.

— Zeus ::)
Aug 04, 2010