Blogging Gives You Hell.

I quite abandoned this blog, once my "public" diary, about three months ago as I started the news blog called Mintgrove. I'm trying pretty hard to promote Mintgrove and update some worthy articles everyday and I found out that blogging is like walking on a lonesome road when you don't attract enough readers who are willing to interact with you. It feels isolating and sometimes useless. I'm like "who cares?" at least four, five times a day and then, I keep doing it somehow persuading myself that somebody's waiting for updates and it could be my portfolio.

When I had an opportunity to attend to a seminar about the dynamics and the impact of blogosphere half a year ago, I asked to the speaker, who himself was a power blogger, about how he promoted his blog and how much time he spent on blogging. He said he was promoting his blog by visiting other influential blogs and leaving comments and trackbacks with a link to his blog and he spent at least 6 freakin hours a day only for the blog. This shit is mad serious and crazy. I thought I would rather be a construction worker than a blogger at that time. Blogging is a painstaking activity. It requires tenaciousness, diligence, faith, and creativity to a certain extent. Anyway, I think I'll keep doing it even if it was not my cup of tea. I'll just swallow it. Big ups to all the bloggers over the blogosphere. you all deserve a big applause!