Lifeless Reasons for Blogging

The new year 2005 rings in a new uprise for the internet community. Several people who were never aware of their abilities make the decision to create their unique experience of blogging. The motivation is strangely found in the aspects of their microspheric environment represented through their usual personal form of living. The new blogs consist of a writing based on the author’s „self-consciousness, self-doubt, awkwardness, and overcompensation“ (Dennis A. Mahoney) which causes the pseudo-literate and often educated reader to endlessly ignore and overread the interesting, yet unfortunately mis-constructed content.

Examples and Problems: Quite regularly the blogs contain information on the most simple things (e.g. new year’s resolutions, wishes, dreams, emotions) and have no bond towards a group or greater area of response. The authors neither express themselves in a broarder sense for community nor allow a kind of individualisation for their readers, as the content holds no context of continuity or deeper infestation of the mind.

A blog is considered to be either a private or public installment of the author’s content, but such open publication requires effort and continous enhancement on both the reader’s and author’s side. To accquire a higher frequency of readers, the authors may relate to the „7 C’s of Web Design“ expressed by Dr. Philip Kotler: Context, Content, Community, Communication, Connection, Commerce, and Customization. Each author may inherit itself from these factors.