Happy New Year, Fellow Bloggers!

Wednesday, December 31, 2008 | | 0 comments |

The clock's ticking and soon we'll be saying goodbye to 2008. Just like with any other year, 2008 is filled with both good and sad memories but I think with regards to my life, there are more good memories.


:)

I wish you all a very, very Happy New Year! May 2009 be a grander year for us all.


Photo by berriehol

How Much Do You Trust a Blogger?

Saturday, December 27, 2008 | Labels: , , | 3 comments |

I just remember that I've read a news article about two weeks ago that more and more people are relying on the accounts or statements that bloggers write regarding products and services.

Let me clear that up a little bit. That news article said that when people wants to buy something, let's say a new laptop, they would go Google it and then would choose to read the reviews made by bloggers regarding that new laptop model that they want.

It means that more people are starting to value the opinions of bloggers and highly gives importance to these bloggers whenever they make their purchase decisions.

What could be behind it? I can only think of one thing. Perhaps it's because bloggers are just like you and me. They are common, normal people who have tried a certain product, got pleased or pissed with it, and just stating their opinions of it. It makes the product review more human and more likely to be unbiased, assuming that the blogger was not paid to write that review.

I also have my faith on my fellow bloggers that whenever I want to find out about something, I try to find what others say about it before I dole out the cash. So far everything that I bought using this technique brought me much satisfaction. Whether it's my Asus Eee PC, my Genius headset or my Samsung LCD monitor. It goes to show that a good quality product can usually get its right share of promotion, an unbiased one, through word of mouth starting with bloggers. 

A Blogger's Christmas Wish

Sunday, December 21, 2008 | Labels: , , , | 8 comments |


Photo credit: brungrrl

As a blogger, I have 3 Christmas wishes that I do hope will come true in 2009.

No, it's got nothing about world peace, or perhaps just a slice of it. But generally, my wishes are not selfish by themselves.

A Blogger's Christmas Wish Number 1:

I wish to find the energy, enthusiasm and the time to blog.
Not only to write more posts and in regular intervals,
but so I can be able to read other blogs and interact
with my fellow bloggers.



A Blogger's Christmas Wish Number 2:

I wish that I become a more efficient blogger,
capable of creating unique ideas
and write about them properly
so I can share them with the rest.



A Blogger's Christmas Wish Number 3:

Lastly, I wish that more of my fellow bloggers
will practice responsible blogging
and in the process, become responsible netizens as well.
For all of us to refrain from writing about crap,
thinking about crap, blogging about crap,
and most of all not helping in cleaning up
all the crap that we have churned out on the web
and the blogosphere in particular.


If Santa's reading this, I hope he finds my name on the 'Good Boys' list and grant at least one of my wishes.

:)


The Fear of Not Blogging

Sunday, December 07, 2008 | Labels: , | 6 comments |


This blog is relatively new, but I actually started my very first blog in 2004 when a friend of mine introduced me to Motime. I blogged there for about a couple of years until one day, I suddenly got tired.


That was it. I just woke up one day and stopped. I lost steam. You can think of any other cliche out there to describe it, the bottom line is, I lost the zest to keep on blogging.


Now I started blogging again late last year, this time through Wordpress.com. Why and how? Well, I missed it. I did miss blogging and the joy that I get out of writing my thoughts.


I am currently maintaining other blogs, this one is just one of them. Lately I have this fear that perhaps I would be bitten with the bug again, that bug that makes me stop blogging.


Is it a disease? Some of my friends have stopped blogging for months now. Others, like me, started anew with a new blog, a new theme, everything. Half of these people who started blogging again are still on it, while the other half stopped. Again.


Right now, while I don't have the intention of stopping, there is still the fear that I might wake up one morning and don't have the blogging spirit.


It's a fear and the only remedy that I know is to face my fear. How? By keep on blogging.