OK, I must confess. I'm a new one here. Before my course Online Journalism in Vidzeme University College I was just admiring the mysterious and immense blogosphere. This course encouraged me to do and to explore more. So today I'd like to speak about blogging itself.
Recently I found really nice word - blogsome, from the popular bloggers' site Blogsome. It has several meanings but one of them is - a topic worthy of being blogged. So what are these things that are admissible in blogosphere?
Let's look on blogosphere starting from the basics.
As the first type of blogs I would define those with personal thoughts and life experience. Yeah, those under topic "what my dog ate for breakfast" :) . I think they are like peep shows where you can experience other person's feeling and thoughts, maybe also ask for an advice. Everything depends on how interesting you can tell about the "dog". Blogs like these are everywhere and mostly written for a stated range of people.
Next level could be philosophical and other kinds of thoughts and opinions. Something more than dog's morning rituals. Deeper analysis from which discussions derive.
Then very popular theme is tips & tricks. Very useful but questionable when speaking about copyrights. Sharing knowledge is great but straight translation or just overwriting from other resources balances on issues of ethics and law.
Other category could be photos. The most famous Flickr or Agris Krusts from Latvia. Your own and sent in by others. Photos with high quality and artistic contribution or just sweet and funny.
More serious category could be blogs that try to overlook and solve (or just start discussions) on problems that all society is concerned about. Here blog completely acts like a mass medium.
And the last but not least category could be professional blogs. Those devoted to themes for a particular interests. Blogs like never ending sources of information. In Latvia they could be Nozare.lv, Ldiena.lv, Vdiena.lv and also others not so widely spread.
These are just some categories I liked the best and worth considering.
In the end I'd like to quote Ernests - it's better to write less than pointless. Or you have to have very supportive audience. Cause blogging is interaction - at least dialogue. Everything's not worth blogging.
Notes from me & around My own personal view to things here and around whenever I am. More or less Latvia and Mexico. No regularity, no particular topics. But I do have things to say louder.
