I just got back from a blog who seemed to find offense at monetized blogs. The blogger later tried to justify his harsh stance by reasoning monetized blogs with no good contents are against every rules of the blogging book. These so-called agenda filled blogs are crap and their existence merely to make a quick buck. I will of course disregard his personal disdain for ‘money making’ blogs. Afterall, that is the man’s prerogative.

What baffled me is, why the distinction between monetized blogs and non-monetized ones? If we are talking about the content quality, why should we put the issue of commercialism into the equation? Are we supposed to hold commercialized blogs to a different standard than non-money making blogs?

The truth is, there are bad blogs and there are good ones. There are good monetized blogs and there are bad non-monetized blogs. That’s the undeniable truth. A heavily monetized blog littered with bad contents is no better than one without a single line of ads. The simple fact is, there is only such thing as a good blog or a bad one. And that even my friend, is pretty subjective.

Everybody said blogs should have an identity. Sometimes I do think WTF!

What identity should they have when they don’t have a job, they don’t damn eat, breath or shit. Sorry blog, I don’t think you ought to liberate from your author and stand on your own two feet so to speak. Not to mention the obvious, you don’t have a pair of legs to begin with… so that’s just baloney.

I always think blog is an extension of an individual and rightly stay that way. Practising alter-ego for your blog is only recommendable if you’re sick and seeing a shrink. Or doing paid posts.

Today one of my PPP post got rejected. In my moment of excitement for bagging an $8.50 deal, I forgot to insert an interim post between my last paid post. Stupid.

Come to think of it, I did not even thought of an interim post. The excitement of getting anything more than $5 is already overwhelming for a newbie. Yeah, sneer and look down all you want, that is what happened.

It was sad to lose that post not because it’s one of the better paying ones, I personally do like it. Damn, effort has been poured into it… my artistic touch. …. priceless. So, I’m not putting that post down though they are not going to pay me. I’ve decided it stays!

Well, good lesson to be learned. Interim post, Interim post and interim post.

I’m tempted to immediately write another one to redeem myself, but then, those $5 for 300 words offer is as seductive as me romping around in a bikini on the beach. Trust me, you don’t want to see that. Maybe I’ll just catch up on my beauty sleep and live to fight another day.

Do you like to make money making paid posts? Improve your blog ranking in the shortest time? Find out the latest blogging fad that is going to propel your blog to the A-list? So do I and you’re in the wrong place.

The fact is I bet you won’t find anything here you don’t already know. Seriously, do you honestly believe there’s still new truths out there waiting to be revealed? So, I guess that brings us back to the question “then what the heck is this blog about?”

Tell you what it is not about… it’s not about the back lane shortcuts to blogging glory but it is about the blogging journey of an ordinary blogging citizen unhyped, along with the rants, the ups and the downs. I guess this blog will mostly deal with my blogging journey.

Seriously, who cares about your freakin’ journey?

Well, in case you have not noticed, this is my blog and naturally I am the centre of my universe. I guess that makes me pretty important… at least from my perspective. I know you’ll understand, right?