22 Jan 2007
Is problogging really bad?
The so called ‘Blogosphere’ has been inundated by a new hype: the problogger invasion. Everyone wants to be a problogger nowadays. Lots of people want to pay their bills by blogging. They want to live in permanent vacations. They want the glory and the women (or not).
But, what is the actual impact of problogging on the credibility of the ‘Blogosphere’? What is going to happen with that idea of an independent kind of media, that does not owe anything to a sponsor, and for this reason would rather write what people actually think instead of what the sponsor wants?
Of course, I don’t have answers but my own. But I can write as a problogger, as a guy that, like several guys and girls I know, make blogging for a living. Despite, or besides, the fact that I earn money because of my sites, I am a blogger, and I blog since a time when the word ‘blog’ had not been invented yet. I mean, in 1998 I worked for a small company that brought to the city where I lived its first ISP. Everything was new, a challenge every corner. As a sysop (before, I have been involved with BBSs, don’t see me as a freak just because the ’sysop’ word), or system administrator, I had a couple megabytes in the server, and everyday I wrote a new page for the index, renaming the precedent pages, and recreating the hyperlinks. There was no WordPress those days.
Back to the point, I could synthesize my opinion with a single phrase: I don’t trust in blogs, except for the ones I write. Period.
Internet is a new medium, in fact. Commercially speaking, it has a few years, and a lot to grow and above everything, people have a lot to learn about and with and on Internet. Even the so called ’specialists’. Because of the anonymity it is very easy to write anything you want, and because of its extension (or size) it is almost impossible for one to track and audit the sources of an information.
I mean: it’s not about the paid reviews, AdSense, sponsored links, affiliate programs or problogging that you cannot trust in what you read on Internet. It is because Internat is free, and easy, and cheap, and that’s the way it is supposed to be.
I don’t trust blogs or any website, but I trust in (some) people and in readers. Readers are the true strength of (pro)blogging. The recurrent ones because they inspire the writer, because they are clever; they (the readers) write about the (pro)blogger and his sites, and recommends their friends. And the casual readers are important because they click a lot, they buy, and make (pro)bloggers happy.
Okay, now that I told you that I do not trust blogs, I would like to tell that I trust in Logsense, BrPoint, Jungle Book, Car News and A View of Brazil.
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It is not bad at all, but only few people can really make good money from that. And if you check their record you will probably find that they take their advantage from their “real life”.
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