Jason Calacanis’ First New Email Post.
He retires from blogging and begins bulk emailing? Is fark? I think not, in his first email. He talks about how bloggers over reacts with blogs.
Most of the time you get the people who really love to blog, and those who try to make money. It comes with the territories, but it isn’t something that we do for ourselves. It’s something that we do for our readers. So let’s get down to the business at hand.
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Is blogging dead?
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Yes, it is. Officially.Actually, I’ve been thinking about this question and while blogging is
clearly booming, there has been a deep qualitative change in the
nature of the ’sphere. There are so many folks involved in blogging to
today, and it’s moving at a much quicker pace thanks to “social
accelerants” like TechMeme, digg, Friendfeed and Twitter. Folks are so
desperate to be heard–and we all want to be heard that’s why we
blog–that the effort put into being heard has eclipsed the actual
hearing.[Via TechCruch]
Thanks to all the help from the social media group! I think we are more able to find more than Two years ago, finding a blog would of been, just luck! If not, by chance, we would of had to really search until we found that blog we liked and wanted to keep reading.
Others think blogging is a skill, I on the other hand think it’s something that comes with the territories. If you want to blog, you have to make yourself available to talk about anything that you’re passionate about.
Does that mean we need more readers? I say NO! We have plenty of readers. They are just looking the blog that connects them to there ways of thinking. It isn’t the writer that determines this but by the readers. Who wants to be a better person by making contributions to their favorite blogs.
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Excelling in blogging today is about link-baiting, the act of writing
something inflammatory in order to get a link. Many folks say I’m
responsible for link-baiting–these people are absolute idiots. I’ve
never tried to get any of these insecure, lonely freaks to link to
something I’ve said.[Via TechCrunch again]
Jason if you read this, I don’t want any link love from you. I say that truthfully, I am not insecure or Lonely that needs link love from anyone who has quite a few followers. I really don’t care who likes me or hates me, I do this because I love to blog. Jason just because of a few bad apples in the group doesn’t mean all of the blogsphere is that way.
I could care less about getting link love. I admit, I would like to have some but that is beside the point. My integrity is nothing to laugh at. My philosophy is that I’ll get my followers because of my principles. It just burns my biscuits that you have the tenacity to make a comment about bloggers like that.
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I personally think, you’re not doing this to get some attention! I know better. You are doing this because the blogosphere has mistreated you. I understand it, I realize that you are tired of the blogosphere trying to do all this stuff to you. So with that I’ll end it, saying this:
“Those who do nothing, have nothing to complain about. Those who are great have great complaints thrown at them!“
