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Are blogs nothing more than regularly posted messages?



Blog - what is it?

Blog - is it just regularly updated content?

The idea of what a blog really is has changed greatly in the last few years. The debate of what defines a blog will probably continue forever among several circles, the same way many people have been debating for a long time about what constitutes a good writing for a blog. One of the things I notice on many sites is that any kind of regularly posted and updated writing is considered a blog by those sites.

Either fewer people are recognizing the difference between a commercial advertisement and a blog, or the idea of blogging has morphed into being all about regular content. Blogging used to be about personal opinions and original thought, and now we have those mixed with marketing, writing rules, product placements and advertisements. Is Spoken-for by Valerie a real blog with personal opinions and daily journals, or is the collection of Microsoft Windows Blogs what defines the concept of blogging together with others? Is it the passion for Kit Kat by Jen Ken that tells us what a blog really should be, or is it the Amazon Associates Blog that shows how blogs exist to help you and me make money?

Is “blog” just a way to post regular messages?

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Should Employers and Interviewers Check Your MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, And Other Social Profiles?



Spying on Myspace users? (by Lorri37)Today and tonight, millions of people across the world will be getting ready for a job interview tomorrow. You yourself may be thinking of your next job, or thinking of your performance at your existing place of work. At the same time, you may probably be wondering as to how a future interviewer, employer, or an existing employer may view your job integrity based on how you act outside of work. In today’s world, where the online activities seems to be slowly getting more attention than life itself in several circles, many people say that it is important for you to realize how your online activities can hurt your existing or future job opportunities. I want to ask you if you think employers and interviewers should pay any attention to your online social profiles which reside outside of your work.

Today I ask a very important question that applies directly to you: Should employers and interviewers look at your MySpace, Facebook, Flickr and other social online profiles in order to judge your work and related performance and integrity?

Poll for you and your future and existing job:

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Top 20 signs You Are A Twitter Addict



Twitter addict (by magerleagues)While Twitter is kind of a new online phenomenon for many offline people, it is kind of an evolutionary idea for many people who have been interacting online since the late 90′s. I have noticed so many people being obsessed with MySpace and Facebook for so many years that it seems kind of normal to actually start thinking of the new Twitter addiction that more and more people are unknowingly and happily jumping into.

I was talking to @Jerine from This-Is-The-Mad-Style and thought of many points in this list. I have talked about webcam obsession before. I have also talked about cell phone addiction earlier this year. Today, we will talk in detail about 20 top signs of Twitter addiction that you may notice or analyze in yourself and others.

Twitter addiction is something that was being discussed even back in March of 2008, when Todd R Jordan listed some very good points about twitter addiction and David Armano listed his “Top 10 signs you might need a Twittervention.” You can use twitter itself to find about twitter addiction also. It seems that the golden age has come when we can say we are addicts and be proud of it. Or at least we do not have to hide from others. Sure, saying “I’m a meth addict!” sounds and feels different than saying “I’m a twitter addict“, but either way, you are an addict and you are on your way to acting like one, if you already are not.

I have been using twitter a lot, specially lately, and today I would like to share with you some points which may show that you are a twitter addict. Maybe these points will help me figure out more about myself too. Maybe I already know, which is why I am posting this list. :) Here we go:

Top 20 signs of Twitter Addiction

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Question: Do multiple microblogging services enable more online waste?



Brightkite.com logoDuring the past 3 months, I’ve twisted microblogging and similar treats to my own liking, posting everything from random thoughts to my food adventures to crazy findings and more. While majority of the social networking platforms, which are mainly modifications and upgrades to the concept of socialization and blogging, appear to bring in a lot of visitors to my profiles and my websites, and a regular flow of new friend-add requests from friends, strangers and other creatures alike, I am beginning to wonder if I’m leaving behind some kind of an online excess waste for my ownself. The idea of having multiple social networks is awesome. The idea of jumping onto multiple social networks and using them at the same time for the same exact content is what I am pointing out with this question.

Twitter.com logoWith several social networking accounts, I usually have similar kinds of posts on many of such accounts. It is like a book: If I write a single book with a single cover and name, and sell it on different platforms, my single content source, the book itself, will get read and be my own creation that is easy to manage and identify with. If I produce the same content under different book names and editors and covers, with each book having the same content inside but different formatting and names and covers on the outside, I will confuse myself and it may be harder to manage all such book types, even though from the inside the book is exactly the same. I wonder if participating with the same content on multiple social networks can be viewed along the same lines.

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Question: Do you consider religion to have any influence in your online activities?



Today’s question is both very specific and very general. Today’s question is specific because it focuses on religion’s influence on you, and it is very general because of focuses on how any of your online activities could be influenced by religion. Do you consider religion to have a great influence in your online activities?

For this question, my focus is not on whether or not you are biased in any form against anyone else or any specific religion. My focus is also not on whether or not such influence is right or wrong. My focus in this question is to see whether or not you consider the existence of religion to have any kind of an influence in your online activities.

How being religious can influence your online activities

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Thought: Are personal blogs the least manipulative kind of blogs when it comes to the idea of earning money?



This is a thought that was intended to be only a few lines long, and yet it has turned into an extensive article of some sort. Since personal thoughts are important and even a single thought can be expressed in a dozen books, I hope you do not mind the length of this article, as the message inside it is very dear to me. I appreciate your time reading this, if you decide to read it all. If not, I appreciate your time reading this very paragraph. Knowing someone has read even a single letter written by me on my site is a very interesting feeling.

This thought and endless variations of it have been on my mind since the beginning. I am noticing an increasing trend where an increasing number of bloggers are manipulating their readers in order to make money. More and more blogs are talking about making money in different ways, and more and more people are saying that their blog readers come first, when in reality all they are doing is saying things, without actually doing anything. In this article, when it comes to talking about the idea of manipulating, you can keep in mind that money is usually a big factor why people manipulate others. Also, you can keep in mind that by the the very words “writing” and “reading” and any of their variants, I am referring to all forms of creating thoughts and all forms of feeling those thoughts, including writing and reading, speaking and hearing, producing and feeling, touching, etc.

It is sad, yet not completely surprising that that original personal blogs, from the original days, which did and do nothing but talk about random things because they want to, are slowly disappearing. They are being replaced by blogs that exist in order to make money, and blogs that are highly influenced by the idea of money earned directly or indirectly through and because of those blogs. I wonder if the simplest of personal blogs are the least manipulative compared to other kinds of blogs.

Simplest personal blogs aim only to be heard – nothing else

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Question: Do you prefer non-personal blogs over personal blogs?



This can be a fun and also a very important question to ask yourself, whether you are a blogger or a blog reader. Do you prefer reading and writing non-personal blogs over personal blogs?

Many people think personal blogs offer not much value to the blogosphere, and I think while that may be true in case of many specific personal blogs, non-personal blogs are more prone to not offering any value, while creating an illusion of value. Thus, both personal and non-personal blogs can offer value, and can also waste time, energy and faith, depending on the perspective used to look at things.

In this question, I am asking specifically about the importance of non-personal blogs in your life, and comparing it to the importance of personal blogs in your life. To give you a better idea of personal blogs and non-personal blogs, here is one of the countless ways to look at both of them.

Personal Blogs Vs. Non-Personal Blogs

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Question: Do you like having password-protected entries?



This question can go along with yesterday’s question, “Why do you blog?” Depending on many reasons, including the reason you blog, you may want to have or avoid having password protected entries. On your blog, or on someone else’s blog, do you currently like having or seeing password protected entries?

Generally, you can have password protected content on personal blogs and non-personal blogs.

Password protected entries on Personal Blogs

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Question: Why do you blog?



Today’s question can be one of the most important questions, if not the most important question, for many bloggers. Why do you blog? If you run a website which is not a blog, why do you run that website?

Different reasons you blog

There could be a lot of reasons why you may be blogging. You may do it for personal reasons, and you may be blogging for non-personal reasons. Some of the specific, different reasons you may blog is because you may want to: (more…)

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Question: Do you prefer no blog comments over disagreeing comments?



This can be an important question to ask in order to realize how you want to communicate with your blog readers and commentors. Do you prefer having no comments on your blog, instead of having a lot of disagreeing comments?

The Art Of Reacting To Criticizing Comments applies to comments of almost any kind. You may be running a personal blog, a business blog, or some other kind of a blog, and may have enabled comments for the different content you post online. However, people may be disagreeing with what you say on a regular basis. Many of the disagreeing comments you receive may be very informative, yet those comments may be disagreeing with everything you have to express through your blog, all the time.

Would you prefer having no comments instead of dealing with comments and commentors that only exist to disagree with you? Do you prefer having no comments compared to having comments that disagree with you?

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