You are how you blog
Many bloggers think that the “About” page is where blog readers can find out more details about a blogger. That is probably true. It is in my view the only place so far where I only talk about myself in order to let you know who or what “Bes Zain” is. Over the year, I have realized that another way to find out more about a blogger is to see how that blogger acts and behaves on their site. A blogger is how he or she blogs.
Your blog represents you
Every part of your blog should represent a quality found in you, like a puzzle piece. Blogs can have some of the biggest puzzle pieces of your life because you voluntarily write so others can read your writing. A person can easily write all the nice things in their “About” page without actually being those things. When I run into blogs that talk about the nice things happening in the author’s past or the offline life, I think to myself: “That is probably nice, though my concern is how you act in front of me and other readers at this very moment, and how and why you tell me about your life through your writing.” As a blog reader, do you want to treat online people based on how they act online or do you want to treat online people based on how they act in their offline life? You decide.
Your blog shows more about you than your “About” page
Your blog, your site, any page you own on any site is a representation of you in some way. Your “About” page is something you write to convince people who you are. The rest of the blog is there to allow readers to figure out on their own who you really are. Your readers will decide on their own what kind of a person you are based on how you act on your blog. How you treat your blog readers, how you respond to comments, how you approach topics you yourself do not believe in and how you brag about your own self shows your readers different things about you.
How you blog, shows who you are
The next time you read a blog or blog yourself, try to keep in mind that whatever you write indirectly tells people something about you, even if you copy paste a passage or entire entries from somewhere else. That means the way you act on your blog, through your blog and through your writing is viewed by online people as being something you would do in your offline life also. Your blog is who you slowly become in the mind of the blog readers. You are how you blog. Keep that in mind and act accordingly, the same way you would act accordingly for the same thing in your offline life.
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( March 5th, 2007 at 11:38 pm )
Yeah, my “About” page isn’t very accurate at all… LOL, you’d probably only know who I really am through my blogs… LOL! I just wrote all that before reading your section about how your blog shows you more than your “About” page does! LOL. I really do find that it’s true.
Anyways, I actually love this entry! I don’t know how you find stuff to write about… LOL. But thank you for writing this!
( March 6th, 2007 at 10:20 am )
Rene Descartes’ rationalist assertion, Cogito, ergo, Sum (I think, therefore, I am) can now, in the wake of technological totalitarianism of the digital age, be properly rephrased as, Blogos, ergo, Sum (”I blog, therefore, I am). the very definition of identity can now be restructured as we enter a period of human evolution in which the historical identiy of the past can be permanently transposed on the digitized surface of transnormal pixilations randomly bouncing off the unconsciousness of bloggers. The para-structural edifice of contemporary culture assumes an identity transformed in an ever dizzing manner before our very eyes. blogging assumes the totality of this very unfixed and unstable socio-cultural nexus of the post-modern age. Professor Matrix
( March 6th, 2007 at 7:54 pm )
It’s true that what you write shows who you are precisely. But when I am a bit lazy sometimes, I still go to about page first to decide if I am going to contnue reading on some blogs. :p
The topic your choose, the words you use, and the idea you express all show what kind of person you are. I hope my blog impresses people with a very bright and optimistic way. ^___^ And I think Bes’ blog did it alrealy.
Cheers!!
Iris
http://iristwo.blogspot.com
( March 7th, 2007 at 10:31 am )
This comment is going be special!
I think personal blogs are a proof of this; users find out more about bloggers through posts than the about pages on personal blogs.
Chau. I have not read your “About” page in a while since I already know everything about you [Mwahaha!]. Just kidding. Yes, I think I know you more through your writing and other forms of communication than your about page.
I am so happy that you “love this entry!”
About finding stuff to write, hmm, lol. Thank YOU for reading and appreciating this! 
Heh, I understand what you mean by going to the “About” page to decide whether or not to continue reading a site.
Professor Matrix, welcome! Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome my Professor!
Yes, “Blogos, ergo, Sum”; that’s a new definition to life that is creeping upon us at a very fast pace. “Post-modern age”; I like that terming, heh.
Thanks Professor.
Iris, you have an important point: what you write shows who you are. That is coming up in a future post.
In my view your blog is bright and optimistic in its message and content. And thanks for the kind words Iris!
Thanks again.
( March 8th, 2007 at 8:00 am )
Speaking of about pages… where’d your picture go?
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( March 25th, 2007 at 12:47 am )
I dont think personal blogs need an about page.
( March 25th, 2007 at 1:18 pm )
Interesting point Sawai.
Can you please explain a bit more? Is it because personal blogs are already so person that by reading a few posts people can find out more about the authors? 
( March 25th, 2007 at 5:09 pm )
To keep things simple, three posts on your blog can talk a lot more about you than a three paragraphs in a about me page.
Am I clear now?
If you are creative, you cant brag about it in an about me page. One would have to understand it from your posts and tell you. You can only say, you like surfing or painting or talking walk in the beach during sunrise/sunset. But again there is a difference in saying in a sentence “I like taking a walk in the beach during sunrise/sunset”, and writing a post on how your morning walk that day was.
Hope I am even more clear now?
( March 26th, 2007 at 11:35 am )
Sawai, thank you for explaining the concept.
Yes, that makes things clearer now.
Basically, a person writing about something and their own views regarding something express more things about themselves than their “About” page. The About page is something where you get to tell people who you are. The rest of the blog is something where people judge who you are based on your actions.
Thanks for the “sunrise/sunset” example.
I think I should have used a similar example in my post to make it simpler and clearer also. 
Thanks again.