The true essence of blogging
Posted on December 11, 2007 - Filed Under Personal Encounter |
Blogs are very interesting, informative and entertaining. It is one of the most beautiful ideas which have been conceptualized and realized in the Internet. With the different web technologies available, people find it easy nowadays to publish their thoughts and writings reaching a worldwide audience or readers. In a blog, it is not how perfect your grammar and composition that matters but how well you express your thoughts and ideas clearly. Of course, originality is what makes it valuable and admirable to the readers.
Many gets into blogging not because of their love for the art of expressions rather they eagerly post almost anything even if it is not the product of their honest thinking just to have their blogsites flowing with contents in order to gain profit. What they are aiming at is to increase their website’s traffic, improve their search engine rankings, and to increase the chance of having their ads get clicked to drop some bucks on their accounts. And so, in this case, they already lost the true essence of blogging.
Most people never realized how they are being degraded as they violate the copyrights of bright minds. But the worst thing is, they simply don’t realize they are not blogging anymore but instead they are actually SPLOGGING, SCRAPING CONTENTS from other’s creations.
When I first started blogging, all I am thinking is about earnings but now, I fell in love with it and slowly a more deeper meaning is growing in me, slowly I realized the TRUE ESSENCE of blogging. To me, it is like recording your thoughts, preserving your ideas, storing the products of your mind in a digital form.
Lately, I was very much disappointed to see my original articles being posted in this SPLOGsite http://www.significantblog.com and I was also surprised of how fast they were able to scrape my blogs and have them posted as their own. Imagine this site can have a thousand posts in just a month! This is just an example of how bad it could be when technology will be misused by people who don’t care about others just to earn by all means.
It is about time to ask yourself where does the contents of your blogsite is coming from. Is it the product of your own human thinking or the thoughts of others whom without permission being stolen and used just to have contents for your own blogsite.
There should be a clear borderline between someone who should be called a blogger and someone who is actually a splogger. On what side do you actually belong? Let your honest conscience answer for you.
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