I don’t know if you guys from Singapore have noticed this – recently there has been numerous news articles regarding bloggers. There was this incident about an A*STAR scholar who written something extra that gotten into trouble. [Mr. Dew had his internship in an A*STAR company.]
The term “got browned” got New-Papered. I onced wanted to make a button that says “got beconfused” but I figured that is a sign of a overly-obsessed blogger and seems too proud. My idea came from another blogger though – Heather Armstrong who got dooced. While I never did make a “got beconfused” button, I shamelessly made link buttons for my blog although I am pretty aware no one would be using them anyway.
Newspapers ran various articles on blogging – how to blog, blogging personalities etc.. It seems like the newspaper editor is obsessed with blog or something. I supposed there would be mixed reactions. There will be people applauding the promotion of blogging and there would be a bunch of people who still cannot accept the fact that their friends are posting things related to them online.
I believed that many people in Singapore are blogging. I am one of them. I don’t have a large fan base like XiaXue, I think she has got 8,000 hits per day and I don’t think I’ll ever reach that amount of audience. She has a legion of faithful readers and I have a legion of search engine crawling around my site only.
I not-so-secretly hoped one day I would receive 8,000 hits too. I need to target an audience though, something that I have always been unable to do. The key to getting more hits is to specialize your blog. If you like to blog about Singapore, blog about Singapore all the way. If your interest is the internet and its bunch of bloggers, keep blogging about those. And if you are just one of those “personal diarist”, keep posting pretty pictures of yourself and your vibrator (just the vibrator alone of course; although I would doubt the male fans would mind much).
My blog is a combination of everything (without the vibrator of course), it’s a true holy location of the internet where all the crap comes together. I like people to read all the crap I posted up. Nafcom calls his blog Nafcom’s Crap Blog!, I think mine probably fits the bill more sometimes. Yet another crap entry. Oh boy, I think it even went out of point.
Possibly related:
Mr Dew:
What means ” Nafcom calls his blog Nafcomâ??s Crap Blog!, I think mine probably fits the bill more sometimes.”? Is this a compliment or anti-compliment?
Why do I do my crap blog? What I want to reach?
Ok, here we go:
Just about IT related stuff I have just in a second in mind and want to write down. I do not want to write about my life. For this people have to contact me on ICQ, speak for me a while and if they are trustworthy, there we go!
I am a long time ICQ User, I like ICQ a lot.
(I have done screenshots of my stats, so I can always prove this).
I think the ICQ Focus Group has an huge potiental, but some thngs you cannot write there if you want the public to read it.
I began to tend so much to write about what I hate about ICQ and what I think they should change. Analyze the changes, etc, that even the ICQ Team regularly ready my blog!
Furthermore, I also try to show what I like, what others do and I find interesting, link good blogs, refer to them. give people a thinking about several aspects of stuff.
The idea that thousands of readers might daily hit my blog is very unlikely, I don’t want to catch the majority or a special group of people, I want to hit this small group of people who say: “Oh yeah, actually, I should try to move things, oh yeah, this is interesting, I have never thought about this”.
How many people are successful with getting a human written responce from the GMail Team?
Are the replies from ICQ Support better?
Can I actually get me heard?
Are there blogs writing about other stuff than sexual, life, love and their ex who has broken his heart? Or the blog entry about Mr ShiteHead.
My Crap Blog has not much readers, most people will probably call it boring and gasp for air when reading or even headbang against the keyboard.
But it is the people like you, you refer to my blog and me in person very often, sometimes I think you find something interesting in what I blog and who I am, I didn’t discover about myself, yet
No idea what it is, but I like it, thank you!
I just blog what I have in had, I type it when I have it in head, even if it’s middle in the night and I have my crappy “Moon English”. I won’t re-edit it to correct it later.
It’s a crap blog, I don’t mind.
if people cannot handle that, they should not read it.
Emails: if people email me, every email gets a reply.
Same about blog comments, I will reply everything!
Would I be able to keep this blog reader care with over 1000 readers and fans? I doubt it!
Think about it!
by Nafcom (May 25, 2005 at 8 AM)Nafcom: Well said, I know you target a very specific crowd. I don’t target any particular crowd though. And also, by mentioning that calling my blog “crap blog” probably fits the bill more is not an insult (anti-compliment). It is not a compliment too. I just thought I blog about so much crap and probably more crap then you. I tend to relate crap to useless information just as my categories – Odd World and Humor. Blogging about technical stuff isn’t crap to me.
by Mr. Dew (May 25, 2005 at 3 PM)Mr Dew: Oh, I don’t think “crap” fits to your blog.
You are the only blog I check almost daily, if time allows me to.
I love your writing style and most of the topics & posts are really interesting and/or funny to read!
Don’t be too harsh with yourself, keep the way you do it!
Your fan,
by Nafcom (May 25, 2005 at 5 PM)Joerg
Nafcom: Your words are kind, thanks for you compliment. I read yours too but I can’t really comment much on your ICQ entries unfortunately. It’s in my news aggregator.
by Mr. Dew (May 25, 2005 at 7 PM)I belong to the “I hope only the friends whom I have given my blog address to read my blog and no one else”. But I figure that’s kinda dumb considering this is the WORLD WIDE WEB. XD
by milky (May 26, 2005 at 1 AM)@Mr Dew: you are welcome.
Well, I don’t mind how people read my blog.
@milky: Now you made my curious about your blog, lol. damn!
by Nafcom (May 26, 2005 at 2 AM)milky: I used to prefer such closed communities. But then it turns out that I am too embarrassed to give my blog address to anyone. In the end, I quietly maintained a blog with very few people knowing it. Soon, my visitors come. These visitors found my blog through search engines and stuff. And then it all begins – a blog that is started personal with not many real life friends reading it. Not that I mind of course.
by Mr. Dew (May 26, 2005 at 11 AM)Mr. Dew/Milky:
Yeah, well, I wanted to do the same myself,. but then I found, that I have no friends who are interested in blogging, neither reading blogs, so I thought about a scheme, about a name, and there I went
Might people like or hate my blog, I won’t mind it!
by Nafcom (May 26, 2005 at 10 PM)Nafcom: My friends aren’t really interested in blogging last time too. But now, they are interested already but I don’t seem to be the same type of blog as them. Their blogs are more personal than mine. They don’t usually read my blogs I think, they prefer the more personal blogs with lots of pictures and more fun to read about their friend’s lives this way.
by Mr. Dew (May 26, 2005 at 11 PM)@Mr. Dew: maybe this is why I like your blog, it’s not personal, like mine
by Nafcom (May 27, 2005 at 1 AM)Well, mine is personal ha. I don’t really care if other people read actually, except that I complain half the time and it might give the impression that I’m a whiny brat. Lol. And Nafcom, you don’t know my blog address! xP
by milky (May 27, 2005 at 3 AM)@Milky: Ah interesting. How many 20 years old females from Singapore on Blogger are called “milky”?
by Nafcom (May 27, 2005 at 4 AM)Nafcom: My blog isn’t as personal as some of my other friend’s. I see their pictures all around, link here and there. They got their friends visiting, lots of photographs to share. I guess they are more open in a way.
milky: Don’t worry, I don’t think of you as a whiny brat. I don’t read blogs with people whining in all entries, hahaa… I think your blog is interesting and most definately not whiny to me.
by Mr. Dew (May 27, 2005 at 11 AM)@Mr Dew: Personal pics or not, I cannot stand such blogs you mention.
Apart from your blog, I regularly visit
by Nafcom (May 28, 2005 at 1 AM)this blog and that’s almost it.
Nafcom: I visited her blog before through yours.
by Mr. Dew (May 28, 2005 at 5 AM)@Mr. Dew: Did you ever notice, that knowing English allows us reading all crap written around the world or spoken?
I could write a whole blog entry about a Panamanian who would prefer to blow up the whole planet
Anyway… back to the topic. Her (Melissa’s) blog is fun to read, I think
by Nafcom (May 28, 2005 at 10 AM)Nafcom: A Panamanian? That entry sounds interesting, hahaa… I look forward to see your post on that if you do intend to have one in the first place.
by Mr. Dew (May 29, 2005 at 11 PM)@Mr. Dew: No, I don’t think I will ever write about this.
It’s a cruel story, about a Panamanian being an huge rascist.
I do strongly believe in all humans are just equal.
Finally, I ended up in deleting her and putting her on my ignore list.
It just scared me…
by Nafcom (May 30, 2005 at 2 AM)Nafcom: That’s scary. I believe in equality too. I just thought the idea of blowing up the whole planet sounds extreme and I wonder what the hell is that person thinking.
by Mr. Dew (May 30, 2005 at 3 PM)Mr. Dew: What she was thinking?
Hitler was great, WWII was wonderful, death to all Jews, or better to all nasty humans. (by the way: her included).
that is what she said. and the sad thing was: “You have to accept my opinion”. and I said “No, I don’t have to.” and she “You will never understand me, nobody understands me”.
Dumdidum.
“Poor” Nazi-Pananamian, nobody understands her…
And in this moment I thought: “Why the heck did she learn English? Now she can spread her words to everywhere”.
That is what I was refering to earlier and this is what I meant.
by Nafcom (May 30, 2005 at 6 PM)Nafcom: Er… Her logic doesn’t seem quite right. Well, I don’t like people to discriminate people that badly to bomb the world. They’re too extreme.
by Mr. Dew (May 30, 2005 at 8 PM)@Mr Dew: nice that we agree here.
by Nafcom (May 31, 2005 at 8 AM)Well, would you write about it on your blog? tell me..
I don’t like to blog about it, the next thing I know, she’ll come to my blog and tell me she’ll bomb my apartment, lol
by Mr. Dew (Jun 1, 2005 at 9 AM)