Just hope I can live up to being a motivated blogger.

I started to work on my own “make-money-online” blog, blogging my learning curve and experience while working online. Never did I realize this blog is going to be part of a theme which I later changed it into Marketing Business Online. Probably because I have got great interest in marketing while in my physical business years… And I see a huge similarity to port over my stuff into digital world.

And I slowly started to talk about marketing in the blog with a twist of adding Internet into it. This blog is slowly changing me to meet more friends online and to create useful information for everybody hopefully…

And thanks for the mention! I’m still working on that “real strategy” I mentioned. Finding the time consistently is the hardest part for me.

I run a video games blog and because of the 3 larger VG blogs(Joystiq, Kotaku and Destructoid) most gamers(my viewers) think of blogs as only useful for any information leaks or just a place to find unprofessional journalism from immature freelance writers. This perspective was influnced by the larger sites.

Unfortunately the ‘whoring out’ (best word I can think of) of blogging systems by too many mainstream social media sites destroys the reputation of blogs in general. Because most of the blogs on those sites are trashy.

The same applies for video games, all of the big news sites have their own blogging system for users.

“It seems the general public is still clueless to the true powers and uses of blogging.”

Is there any reason that they should care though?

For the majority of internet users, it doesn’t matter if they are reading a blog, CMS, forum, static webpage or any other type of content. The only thing that matters is that they can get what they want. I’m not worried about how they might conceive of blogs (If they’ve ever heard of them…). My blog is still nothing more than a series of webpages, just like any other website.

You are dead on about the “teenage diary” misconception. Sure blogs are great for that too (writing anonymously into nothingness is like a message in a bottle), but they also can be powerful tools of communication. I’ve heard the free blogging services framed as “the most powerful communications devices since the printing press,” and while overblown, I think that’s a more meaningful and accessible way for the public to conceptualize the medium.

With any new style of communication there will always be a long period of transition as all the diverse groups of people try to use it differently and try to leverage all its potential. Blogging certainly is no different. Right now we’re seeing a real broadening of the definition of blogging and new and interesting ways to push blogging are being developed daily. I think it’s a very exciting time as people wake up to the idea of serious information being disseminated this way.

And of course we all appreciate the increased advertising potential that is emerging with this new mainstream respect for blogging as a platform. This in turn enables different uses as bloggers are allowed to work full time on developing new sites and innovative content. Blogging as a profession is in its infancy but watch out for the next generation of sites once the idea of full time blogging starts to mature.

Why do people blog? How about – why shouldn’t they blog?

The custom design theme is a must as well. I think to many blogs use a free theme, which is fine, but at least use a theme that you don’t come across on every other site you navigate to. There are hundreds, if not thousands of themes and templates available. Download a good one and tweak it so it doesn’t look like other sites.