Comments on: Three Things I Miss About Blogging - Problogger’s Question, My Answer

By: Troy

Troy — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:40:04 +0000

Just got here from StumbleUpon like Bloggrrl. Your post really makes me wish I had started blogging earlier, the market is feeling too saturated now. I’m even a little worried that we’re creating a blog bubble that will inevitably burst. On a lighter note, I like all the options to make money that we now have. It’s a mixed bag, really.

By: Bloggrrl

Bloggrrl — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 08:39:40 +0000

The irony is that I’m Stumbling this…

You know, I have a blog in an alternate universe where no one has a clue about all that stuff you mentioned. The 14 or so readers I have knit, bitch about their relationships and discuss teaching. It’s nice.

I DO want to make money, though.

By: Beth

Beth — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:16:13 +0000

I miss the days when I could be more personal without someone TELLING me I was being too personal. It’s as if someone unofficially formed the blogging police and assigned rules as to what you can and cannot do, say, sell, etc. The only reason I have ads and write paid reviews is because I was laid off, needed money and it worked. Why can’t my life be a niche?

By: Chris Lodge

Chris Lodge — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:18:03 +0000

Oh God am I sick of ‘My quest to make a million….’ blogs.

Great points here, and I’m afraid this is just a case of a niche activity going mainstream, and the gloss coming off it.

I guess the thing to remember is that the peak will pass, the weak blogs will die off, and what’s left will be the persistent buggers who just like to moan

That’s me sorted anyway…..

By: Rudy

Rudy — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:24:29 +0000

Apart from the ads in your blog, I agree with you: blog, comment, link. It can’t get any simpler than that.

By: diamond geezer

diamond geezer — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:12:28 +0000

I remember the days when most blogposts weren’t about making money out of blogposts. Does that make me old?

By: Bush Mackel

Bush Mackel — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:27:09 +0000

You know honestly, I think I’m in that middle part of being a “grizzled vet” and a n00b. So there’s nothing that I really miss… Certainly a lot more to look forward to. (#):)

By: Madhur Kapoor

Madhur Kapoor — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:07:37 +0000

I also miss the good old innocent days. When i started blogging, i didnt know a thing about PR, Adsense, SEO etc and it was a great fun to discover and learn about them

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:05:41 +0000

I just found you through the Blogging Brits, and am very impressed with this post - it’s actually something I occasionally ~~whine~~ talk about. I’ve been on blogger for 4 or 5 years, and before that, blogspot in a couple of forms, and before that… erm… something-60, or 60-something.

But whatever

I’ve always blogged about life - mine, friends, all real stuff, whatever crops up or crosses my mind. I’ve been offered ads (advertisers, exchanges, whatever), and have been told I “should get Ad Sense” so I could make money, but in the long run, that’s not what my blog is. I do it for me, not in an attempt to rise to the top of anything, not to make money.

I actually get hacked off when browsing blogs at the ones that are bogged down with ads, or the spam-blogs all over the place.

I miss clicking around and finding interesting people, I miss leaving a comment on someones blog and visiting them over and over, becoming almost internet friends with them over time.

The good old days, when you could read a blog and not fight through the ads to see something that resembled content.

Anyways, keep up the good work

-Dan

By: Malin

Malin — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:36:31 +0000

I miss that it wasn’t so important with statistics and how many advertisers and money you could get. You just blogged and tried to tell a story… I still try, but all the money making blogs around me made me money sick as well so I fell in the trap…