Fink About It

In the previous article I told you about ways to improve your blogging. This time it is about how to make blogging popular in general.

Get rid off all them dead blogs

According to the Technorati data there are half a million blogs out there. “Wowie! So blogging is popular. What are you talking about?”, you might fink. Fink again, first because 86% percent of all these blogs are dead blogs. And I am talking about blogging, i.e. the actual posts on a blog, i.e. the frequent updates. What that means is:

Blogging is not popular, but it is popular to open up a blog and not updating it in years.

Hell, I know that is not easy to provide quality content all the time. Twittering is not a solution. Instead try to link to interesting websites (like mine) and get rid off your dead blog.

Don’t say fuck! Say blog!

As I have showed before: Blogging is not very popular. So what to do? I tell ya: We have to make it popular just like Google made Google popular. We simply replace an important word in the language: Read on

The word blog was created by a community. This very same community made it popular amongst other people that let themselves be addicted to the idea of blogging.

People that are addicted to Blogging are called Bloggers.

The question is: “What makes a blogger a blogger?” Firstly, bloggers are not journalists. While journalists have studied writing and a great writing experience, bloggers often start from scratch. In most cases they are not expert writers, but on the other hand they are passionate writers. Blog posts that present bare personal experiences are commented the most.

“Bare personal experiences are commented the most…”

…is not exactly a way to improve your blogging, but it might help others to improve their blogging by commenting on your posts or getting interested in the idea of blogging. This brings me to the second answer you can give on what makes a blogger a blogger: the idea of communication. Whenever people comment on your posts you should be commenting on their comment in order to establish communication with your readers. That is, because they are the instrument to improve your blogging. Tell them to tell you what they think about your way of blogging. You will see that they will react on how you should blog. Just because they are your readers, they will decide on quality over quantity and vice versa. Read on

This is the first post to an article series of 3 very special posts about blogging:

• Why Blogging Is Not Popular (This post)
• Ways to Improve Blogging (coming up this week)
• How to Make Blogging Popular with Just One Word ! (coming up next week)

This is a very special post about blogging and it is a very special post about language. It will show a way in that the word blogging can be made more popular amongst English speakers. Read on

Ok, I don’t exactly hate Twitter, even if this post is in the hate category. Anyway, I don’t like Twitter for these 4 reasons:

Twitter is an excuse

People often use Twitter when they don’t have anything to say on their blog. Instead of a real update they post something like “I just got up” or “Today I wear white socks.” And I am like: “What do I care? I want to read some real updates!”

Twitter is watching You !

That is a bit exaggerated of course, but it’s a fact that the internet never forgets. Past week 3 posts of my other blog were lost completely because I didn’t use the right backup *stupid me* . Nevertheless they had already been indexed at Technorati and so I could find my complete articles there. The point is: Today anything can get indexed – your private manners as well as the locations you go, etc. Some twitterers try to make the congress tweet, and forget how important it was to speak in private and from face to face. That, my dear twitterers, is called the real world. Read on

I just looove this new design. If it wasn’t digital I would hug it and eerrr… well.

Hi everybody,

my name is Alex and I want to welcome you all on my blog. This blog will be my playground about blogging. I will blog about designs I love, plugins I hate, everything else about blogging and a lot of “fink” puns. No crap here – only quality content!

Furthermore I will provide you with my self-made freebies, i.e. themes and graphics. You can already find a lot of icons to download in the fink tank on the right hand side.

So have fun with this website and check back anytime, okay?

See You !

Alex Fink