Comments on: 16 Misconceptions About ‘Serious’ Blogging

By: jai prakash

jai prakash — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:24:22 +0000

Hey CHING YA

Good stuff!!!!!
I am passionate blogger from India.I have mention your name in top female bloggers about me page who is innovative thinker…..Pls go through my page and If wanna add some points in about me page .I will update….via mail or through comment.

Thanks

By: khalid

khalid — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 03:17:08 +0000

I liked the way of your writings. I came to know about you from Ram’s article :Female Bloggers Whom I Love: Thanx
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By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:07:18 +0000

No!

Keep making illustrations!

That’s where your edge is Ching Ya.

Perhaps you could learn to make them faster, or better, or whatever, but your illustrations are excellent.

Maybe the world needs fewer but better articles anyway. We definitely need better drawing.
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By: jan geronimo

jan geronimo — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:43:30 +0000

Quitting on one’s day job after installing AdSense got me laughing very hard. Many new bloggers pin their dreams on that one. Investing time in Twitter – I’ve talked with a number of bloggers who see it as a waste of time. I’m glad you included that in your points. And hey, thanks for includding a link to Jon Morrow’s post. I love his writing and – surprise! – I haven’t read that one yet.
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By: Ruri

Ruri — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:50:12 +0000

Well you said it all. I agree when you said every serious blogger need to understand how web/blog operate such as understand a little about image and html.

If blogger know how to do SEO, maybe visitors will come by themself but they will never become repeat-visitors.
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By: Ching Ya

Ching Ya — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:08:32 +0000

Ashok,

Thank you for sharing your opinion.

The idea of avoiding the echo chamber is to encourage bloggers to be more creative and work on making themselves stand out, even though the message might be similar to others. At times, we tend to follow without even putting much thoughts into it, then being the ‘voice’ that even ourselves don’t enjoy much. Therefore, it’s to encourage bloggers to be themselves and find the ‘real’ voice of their own, not just being the same as million others.

By: ashok

ashok — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:09:55 +0000

While this is an excellent post, I’m not too sure about point 2: it does look like certain topics bring in a lot more visitors than others. Moreover, to speak directly to your point, the “echo chamber” exists even when one is controversial: certain debates play out the exact same way each time. People really do not like genuine challenges online, and you don’t need to look too far for proof of that.

My recommendation to a blogger is “be yourself because success isn’t worth losing your voice.” If you blog on the things everyone wants to hear, and say what they want you to say, then you can get the audience and it will be worthless.
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By: Ching Ya

Ching Ya — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:16:29 +0000

Mitch,

Thank you so much, Mitch. I appreciate you liking the post. It’s better late than never, I’m glad you get to read it and leave your thoughts.

It’s true, sometimes I tend to spend a little bit more time on a post than regular bloggers who are productive in their writings. Need to improvise on that matter. Perhaps I’m also a ‘perfectionist’ who is far, far from even close to being perfect yet trying to be 10% closer? ha.. maybe that’s why to me, all the posts here are all my ‘flesh & blood’.

I shall learn to work smarter. ^^

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:50:12 +0000

Very nicely written, Ching Ya; wish I’d seen it earlier, when you first wrote it.

I think the best thing you wrote here is that one’s blog or posts don’t have to be perfect. Mine certainly isn’t. I also don’t take as long to write as you do, because if I did, I couldn’t get out as many posts as I do.
.-= Mitch´s last blog ..Blog Day 2009 =-.

By: Ching Ya

Ching Ya — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:09:20 +0000

Thank you Lawmacs,

Glad to know you too. Appreciate you visit here from the interview. Indeed what Hesham did is inspiring. We all get to learn and know more about the bloggers’ experiences.

Hope to see you here again.