Spacedmonkey

This blog has been running for nearly a year and I thought that I would talk about blogging itself. I really enjoy writting this blogs in general and the act interests me so much, I thought that I would be a little Self-reference. I must admit, I really do not write enough and keep this page as updated as I should but I do try. It really is a matter of what on earth should I write about? There are lots of sites out there that report news like the BBC, so I am not going to try and be one of those. I don’t like sites that rereport news and normally there is a just a hyperlink to the page and no useful new information. If you really want to find cool news stories, than why not have a look at the social linking sites, like Digg or del.icio.us.

I have been known to do a bit of rereporting but I don’t think that is the real focus of this site. The point of this site is that is doesn’t really have a point. I can write what I feel interests me and share that with the rest of the world. But reading this blog you get a chance to look in my head and see the kinds of things that interest me. It makes this blog very personal to and you get insight into my mindset by reading it. Having said that it is very personal, I don’t really write about my life. There are lots about blogs out there about people’s lives, their girlfriends and parents that are getting on people nurves. For the most part, all of these are rubbish and are completely boring to read. I find it hard to believe that anyone but the people who these blogs are write about would find Joe Blogs and his cats at all interesting. I try and write about accessable topics that interest the world at large. What the problem lots of us weblogger have is, how do you keep the quality level to a high standard. The question you have to got ask yourself before sitting down in front of your computer is this, “Why I am blogging this?”. If it is for a good reason, to write something of use, that would help the world, like a blog about you dealing with a problem, then fine. But if I have to read another blog post about the Iphone, I think I am going to go mad.

When I write, I only try and write things that I know and that interest me. I don’t go off on rants (tell a lie, I do) or try bring people to the way I think about stuff. I just try and write what I think and let you guys judge. This means that I don’t always get the traffic I should. If I talked about recent events or news stories, I would get more people coming in from search engines suchs as google. Personally, I don’t think writting blogs should be about how many people see the site. That really is not important to me, I write because I enjoy getting my thoughts down and not because I want lots of hits. I don’t have adverts on this site so I really am not making any money out of this. I like the idea of someone just finding my site by mistake and taking a look. It doesn’t matter as long as someone might find it useful.

It will be interesting to look back on this site in 10 years. Lots of stuff in my life and I will be able to look back on it as a kind of time Time capsule.