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To Blog or Not to Blog (2)
Generally speaking there are two types of bloggers: part-timers and professioal bloggers. While the former uses his or her blogging activities as a way to share one’s experience and thoughts, the latter makes it to make a living, so to say. That’s why we’d find the full-timers are blogging everyday and expect a high volume of traffic, readership, subscribers and, well, online earnings.
The Part-time Bloggers
The part-time bloggers, on the other hand, are those bloggers who don’t have any ambitious expectation. They are blogging i.e. writing in their blog / website as a way to express some of their ideas and experience they feel of beneficial to others or just feel uncomfortable to share it with their offline friends.
Part-time bloggers don’t have too high an expectation. They hardly push it too hard for themselves. They blog / write an article whenever they want. Short or long posting doesn’t matter. They comfortably write irregular posting / articles every now and then; it could be daily, weekly or even monthly. They don’t care. They own the blogs, not the blog own them.
Rima Fauzi rightly said here:
I would never stop completely or keep my blog private but that is because I am too ‘cuek’, I dont care if people stop coming to my blog, or if I am criticized or even if I get negative feedbacks or comments. I blog for myself, and unless I am too busy, I will try to maintain my blogs and update it as often as I can.
Part-time bloggers should be like Rima Fauzi. They should care less to traffic. And focus more on writing and with the intention to share it with others. With the larger audience that cross the boundaries of localities.
One should make clear what the purpose of one blogging activities in the first place: as part-timers or professional ones? Because the two have totally different ways and consequences. Being part-time bloggers are like being what you are before starting to blog. By being part-time bloggers, you just transform your speaking habit into a writing / blogging one. Only with a bit larger audience (readers) in the case of the latter. For part-time bloggers, writing in the blog is just an extension of talking. And therefore there is no question of quitting. If blogging is like talking, why the question of quitting should arise in the first place? (to be continued)
December 29, 2008 at 10:04 am
a blogger is an alternative way to increase income in fun mode
June 24, 2009 at 5:53 pm
[...] and many comments–like old timers. The absence of which will make them discouraged and then quit blogging. That’s why we saw many “drop-out” bloggers every now and then. Faiz, as I used to call [...]
July 28, 2009 at 2:51 am
[...] Part Time and Full Time Blogger [...]
October 12, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Women blogger…??? Wonderful
October 12, 2009 at 2:49 pm
I’am soryy salah kamar kirain koment tentang blogger of the week Alia Makki …
I’am part time blogger maklum kalau siang “NGULI” kalau malam “NGILU” heeee…..
October 12, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Hmmm,it’s hard to decide what type of blogger I belong to. Perhaps I’m somewhere in between, caught in the middle, neither black or white, just grey. I’m blogging amateurishly just like any other novices. I’m using a free platform just because I can’t afford to buy my own domain. And afterall, I’m technically blind to the whole procedures of building a ’serious’ and professional site. Above all, I’m still looking for the right ’shape’ for my blog. What themes should I write on my blog? I just need a well-arranged plan, but turned out planning isn’t that easy. So my blogging now is part of my journey to my pro blog. But how long? Wel, I never set targets when it comes to time. It’s a journey I want to enjoy, not a journey to give more burden on shoulders. I just started this 2 months ago, so I think there’re lots more new experiences awaiting me to get explored.
#yeah, that’s a lot better. just enjoy whatever you’re doing now.