Is Everything Worth Blogging?

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.

More on online identity: blogs

In my previous posts I mentioned that there are serious drawbacks when talking about online identity. But in this post I would like to stress one really good thing – your identity in blogs, building blog community and networks.

Formally we all have a freedom of speech but in real life there are several things that bother to use it completely. Shyness, no options to meet people in real life, retired people or just bothered persons sitting home alone. What to do not to go insane?

One and perhaps one of the best options would be start blogging.

It is said that almost all information in the world is in the net. I would be more precise and say – all the information are in the blogs. Just type in a search engine and you’ll find many useful tips and tricks. For example, I was really confused what Bloglines mean and I found a great user-friendly post. In this context the main blog advantages are informal language for easier comprehension and interactivity for straight contact with the blog author. From this follows a chance to meet these authors on-line. Experience exchange is invaluable. These are some professional things. But blogging advantages also refer to community building in everyday situations. For example, people who for any reasons can’t communicate in a different way and choose blogging. It’s like a new world for them. Perhaps even sense of life for desperate ones.

Within these cases I completely support different online identities. Cause you’re always a bit better when blogging*. And even only pretending better you become better.

(please don't judge this blog, these are only my personal thoughts and I realize that there are also many cons against blogging)

*quote of Kristaps Petersons in the BISS lecture about Corporate Blogging