Sitting back, relaxing, sipping a cup of coffee, hopping from one blog site to another.  Great way to spend a lazy afternoon.  While some would pull out their blackberries to check email, or their iPhone 3Gs to play with them a little more… ah, I’m set with my Asus EEE PC, a wifi nearby, and a Sinatra CD playing.

Admitting there are blogs I hate and blogs I love.  Such is my online life.  What I hate I still visit for that slender chance of finding a diamond of a post… in the rough.  Those I love… ah too many.

I’m in a little retrospect mood today… allow me to rest with all the WordPress news to talk about ME for a while.  I’ve been in radio broadcasting for the past 15 years.  While my degree says I should be in the IT industry, I somehow have managed to specialize in media, radio and the internet.  Now I’m not really sure which path I took that led me to do part-time blogging work, but I like it.  I’d agree with posts here at bloggingpro.com that it is HARD to make this your main job.  From this post it is near impossible to produce 2,000 posts/month… I guess.

Anyway, let

me shift gear here and say that media/radio and blogging do have their similarities.  Being from both worlds now, these things just adhere out.  An important similar thing I’ve learned thcoarse my media/radio years is content is king.  A well written script is not about the reporter… it’s about the subject… the news item.  Media icons like Larry King, Oprah, Anderson Cooper, Barbara Walters etc. would have that uncanny/supernatural way of making themselves invisible in an interview… it’s the subject that is highlighted… it’s them on the spotlight.  In the end, the readers/viewers know more about the subject, better informed.  A well written blog post is the same.

Whatever it is one blogs about, recollect “Content is King”.  At the end of the day, your readers must say “Hey, I’ve learned something new from you today” or “Now I see that clearly now, thanks”.  It is hard work, and hey there maybe a genuine chance you wouldn’t hit the quota posts you need… but still, you have better served your readers when you put in more.  You’d be a sought-after blogger who made genuine sense. 

I so love this quote right now…

“When something can be read without effort, awesome effort has gone into its writing.:  ~Enrique Jardiel Poncela

 

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