Sunday, June 07, 2009
Bear in mind: someone reads you
The next time you write a post, think: Our readers are more intelligent than us.
There’s a joke within the blogging community that most blogs have an audience of one (New York Times, 05 June 2009). It's not really surprising because according to Technocrati's report, there are around 1 million posts being created everyday. One million posts! (And because I'm writing this at nine in the evening Saudi time, I could be the 999,647th writing a post today!)That's why other bloggers desperately do everything to be read, to create a name for one's self. And the easiest way to make a name for yourself, in my opinion, is to either be bwa-ha-ha insightful (Bob Ong, for example) or make enemies of other people. I see two lessons here: one, notoriety sells but laughter sells better; two, it's never, ever good to put other people down, jokingly or otherwise. (Learn from Candy Pangilinan and my beloved blogger Francesca who experienced the wrath of cracking an Igorot joke).
As a reminder to us all who blog on what to think when we write, here's a poem by Robert Fulghum (thanks to Martin Perez of Akomismo where I first read it). (Painting credits: Dimitris Katsigiannis)
All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten
by Robert Fulghum
Most of what I really need
To know about how to live
And what to do and how to be
I learned in kindergarten.
Wisdom was not at the top
Of the graduate school mountain,
But there in the sandpile at Sunday school.
These are the things I learned:
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life -
Learn some and think some
And draw and paint and sing and dance
And play and work everyday some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out into the world,
Watch out for traffic,
Hold hands and stick together.
Be aware of wonder.
Simple huh? Easy to follow? Then let's learn it all.
Also read: Do we have responsibilities as bloggers?
creating blunt and disparaging remarks against other people to generate some noise for your blog is such a desperate act.
i leàrned in time às à bloggger thàt we cànnot pleàse everybody, even if we vent on our feelings into our blog, we hàve to be càreful;
càreful nà àko still I do not pleàse everybody.
I pleàse myself insteàd, àfter àll they do whàt they like I do whàt I like.
If they dont like whàt we wrote, they càn close their pc no?
Hehehehehe.
OR
They should blog too this lot, so they know how theràpEutic blogging is. ànd màke their lives WORTH to live.
That's a nice poem indeed; we learned the basic principles on how to live in this life from our childhood.
You can never tell that maybe some people are already stalking our blogs and some are "naiinggit" na pag sikat ka na sa blogosphere and if they can't control their "inggit" aatakihin ka na ng bad comments hehehe or gagawa ng isang blog against sa'yo para sumikat ;-) hay ang tao nga naman minsan walang kasiyahan, di ba? Kaya dapat mag-ingat tayo.
Real blogger, and the best one write with great power and great responsibility. You're one of them. Di ba parang si Peter Parker sa Superman.
I am learning everyday. Even the, for the last 5 years that I have blogged, I learned one thing, when you blog positive stuff and stand for what is right, you make a few enemies, but gain respect, trust and many many friends.
['Yan din minsan ang nagpipigil sa aking magsulat... alam ko kasing my readers are more intelligent then me.]
Thanks for sharing the poem by Fulghum. o",)
"When you have nothing good to say... don't grab an amplifier." - azel
"yeah, we learned all the good things when we were young, the simplest but golden one..." - azel
just sharing my thoughts kuya... hehehehehe!
Hence, we need to maintain a certain level of anonymity. Great and meaningful poem. =)
This is very TRUE!! We have to be RESPONSIBLE Bloggers!! :-)
DR. STIRRING RHOD
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Salamat sa pagbahagi ng panulat, bagama't simple lang ang mga ibinibigay na panuntunan para sa isang masayang buhay, minsan ay nakakalimot tayo at nagkakamali, subalit kung tayo ay magiging magpapakumbaba at magpapaumanhin, mapapanatili natin ang kapayapaan sa malayang pagpapahayag ng ating mga damdamin sa pamamagitan ng malawak na daigdig ng blogging.
what can i say but this is an excellent post!! and thanks for sharign that beautiful poem.. i just hope bloggers will bear in mind the insight you shared here when they write a post! have a great day!