There was a lot of re-thinking about why I blog recently. I read many posts from many HK bloggers asking the same question. I thought I know what I blog for, but it's getting more fuzzy after all the new discussions. I questioned myself: Am I actually blogging?

There is no doubt that the viewpoint in that TV program is quite narrow. (BTW, thanks to alex for putting it on-line so us oversea can see!) Blogger and blog culture is much wider than what is seen in the program.

I think the other discussion right now is center on whether a "web diary" is a blog. I agreed that if it's just a blog of "oh, I eat today at noon", there is no difference than those who make those "me too" website back in the old days. They put a few random pictures and flashy text, and call it's their homepage..... come _ON_!

A blog should be a voice about the person writing it, in another word there has to be a personality in there. Another way to put it is it should offer some opinion in it, not just a one-liner and than a link and trackback. That's what I follow when I write a post. When I link to a news or etc, I usually put in some of my thought, even if it's not much of it.

A blog can be about a wide range of topic, may it be politics, technology, news, personal, pepsi girl, ranting, and what you got. It's a blog if there are opinion, personality, bi-direction communcation (via comemnts/trackback).

The other thing I found is when you blog for a while, you get that brain struck going on sometimes, and your opinion-over-BS noise radio may raise and you think it becomes irrelevant... No. It does not matter at long as you speak your opinion and keep blogging. cool

Blog on, guys and gals!

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Hum, just think of that a blog is also defined by the readers it target. A diary usually just target for one person (the writer). But a blog is write to all on the net, or at least a group of people it aims
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