Top 5 Reasons Why Blogging Rocked Our World
Have you ever wondered what was it that made blogging turn into such a mass phenomenon, with billions of bloggers and readers spread all over the world? What’s behind the huge mass appeal? Sure, in the beginning it was a simple and accessible way to maintain an online diary, but that’s definitely not a powerful enough factor to affect the shaping of the future of the online environment.
The more I though about it, five reasons began shaping in my mind, strong enough to set things in motion and to rock our world. Read on and find out what these reasons are and don’t forget to share your opinion with me after you finish reading.
Blogging Speed Limit - “I Have to Give You a Ticket”
Every single day, blogs and websites around the world line up breaking news on virtually any topic and provide live coverage of mostly every event that takes place. It’s the promptitude that has developed into being new media’s biggest advantage over printed magazines and newspapers.
But, promptitude aside, what happens when we push the speed limit?
Link Share Special (3)
It’s been a while since the last link-share post, but, I’ve decided to revive this series and post whenever interesting things happen in the blogosphere. So, here’s what’s new and interesting lately:
SmashingMagazine.com recently published two excellent blogging related articles. The first one is a great usage guide of magazine style themes, with pros and cons. [...]
Should I Start Guest Blogging?
Since Alex has been kind enough to allow me to contribute a guest post on his blog, I thought it would be appropriate to write about, well, guest blogging. I believe guest blogging should be a top priority for anyone who is serious about building their online presence. After all, what better opportunity is there to expose your name to a new audience that to post on someone else’s blog?
Research and Dominate - How to Strategically Plan Your Blog for Success
I am always astounded at the speed I can do research nowadays. What could have taken weeks or a few months suddenly can be accomplished in 30 minutes or less. When it comes to blogging, you can now gather a lot of data for free.
This can help you even before you start a blog around [...]
The Educational Value of Blogging
In the early stages, blogs were mostly online diaries sharing girlfriend/boyfriend gossips, personal photos and experiences. As times passed, blogging evolved into a mass phenomenon. The more people getting caught into this blogs galore, the more experiences shared by different personalities. New trends emerged, niche blogs appeared and blogging became what we see today, a hard to perfectly define, segmented concept of online information sharing.
Whether people perceive it as an alternative to classic forms of journalism, tools for self-help, an online job or the simple morning coffee reading, nowadays, blogging has a massive educational value.
Are Bloggers Hollywood’s Next Big Shots?
Since I can remember I’ve been a huge movie fan. No matter the genre, I’ve watched so many movies that would probably take me more than my hosting space just to list and so I came up with this post’s idea. Are bloggers Hollywood’s next big shots? You never know, but looking back to some of the best movies in Hollywood’s history I can almost see some of them playing the leading characters.
Comments or No Comments - The Big Blogging Question
Why is it that when we hear of blogging we tend to link it almost instantly to post comments? Because the conversation blogs harbor, the ingredient that makes them part of a community, what turns them into a critical part of social media, the instant feedback and interaction, all that makes blogging so wonderful is [...]
What Does It Take to Make Blogging a Mass Phenomenon?
Two days ago I wrote a post on a Romanian blog in which I stated that we cannot talk about a blogging phenomenon without having more than five or six truly successful niche blogs. We cannot talk about a real blogosphere made out of tweet-like posts and YouTube embeds.
The post gathered quite a few comments, [...]
Link Share Special (2)
Many interesting posts out there since the first Link Share Special episode. Enjoy them:
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