Blogging: Art or Craft?

Blogging used to be about keeping a diary of our activities to share good knowledge or a journal. From my own readings, blogging has lost its artform. Bloggers used to feed the news with content because they are always on the scene. Now bloggers get a feed off the news.

It is about getting more affiliates to sign up and sell programmes, how to keep your ranking high on search engines, how to monetize your feeds or how to disguise yourself in forums to get your threads sticky. Quantity versus quality.

Nowadays, when you have nothing to say, you are taught to customize other people's articles and make it your own. Blogging is made into a craft not an art.

Choice of words are very important if not crucial to our blog's health. We are taught to watch out for keywords for the search engine to like your posts. So we turn our art of blogging into a craft to make the search engine work for us.

One can easily spot the difference between an artist and a craftsman. The artist learns to bridge the gap of love and friendship between himself and his readers over a period of time, whereas the craftsman can capture the attention of his reader albeit spontaneous. The artistic blogger spends a lot of time and little money; the crafty blogger spends more money and less time to get off the yellow brick road.

Landing pages no longer show any posts, but opt-ins, adsense and graphics. The content.....less then 500 words. Marketeers says internet users are becoming impatient and have no time to read, don't write too much. So a picture and caption can be considered a post to be 'read'. Ha! what;s that? Not every picture tells a story, you have to at least write a sentence or two! Wow! Britney Spears shaved her head! That;s a blog too!

From the wikipedia

A blog (an abridgment of the term web log) is a website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art, artlog ,sketchblog, videos, vlog, music. MP3 blog.audio, podcasting are part of a wider network of social media.

Micro-blogging is another type of blogging which consists of blogs with very short posts. As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs.[1] With the advent of video blogging, the word blog has taken on an even looser meaning of any bit of media wherein the subject expresses his opinion or simply talks about something.

Is Blogging an Art or Craft. Help me understand.


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