I'se weary of Bloggers.Oh, not all y'all.
But fer some years now I'se dipped into other blog communities, I peeks in heah an' theah to other blog worlds that heretofore I'se enjoyed. It were like stoppin' by fer a cup o' cawffee wif' a cyber friend. Ya' git to learn 'bout another blogger's life an' times.
SOMEthin's goin' way wrong. I know what it is. Is every human encounter now about $$$$$?
Once charmin' blogs is now commercialized. Oh, thar's still charm, but charm with a mission, iffin' ya' see whar' this is goin'. One lovely blog is now hooked up wif' Amazon--so hooked that thar's a half dozen links in every post no matter the topic--food, kitchenware, travel, perfume, hand cream, books, movies, Christmas ornaments--you name it. Now the posts is all driven by, what-can-I-hawk- to-my-readers.
Another hand-full of blogs --oh yes, very charmin'--now have so many "sponsored" pages, so many links to kitch to buy that their pages is long to load. An' insult on injury, nearly every sidebar blog they list is the same--it's a long loop of you-sell-my-schnizz-I'll -sell-yours. Mebbe the key is to look a "followers." If they sport more than 2-25 "followers" then it ain't a you an me blog, but a massive ring of commercial back-scratchers masqueradin' as bloggers.
One quick side-note: I doan mean them blogs whar' we know the blogger has stuff to sell an' does sometimes. Or whar' they link to their own commercial site. I has a friend what owns an indie bookstore. She blogs too. On her blog we hear about the chore of keepin' horses, or totin' kids to this or that sport, how the whole country voted fer candidate xyZ, the college alum shin-dig....an she might throw in the book she is plannin' to review on her commercial bookstore blog. Now, thas' OK. Her whole post ain't about how to git ya' to her bookstore. It has real content thas' NOT about cha-ching!
Another blog is about design--home/ garden design. NOWHERE in this blogger's post are links to stuff fer sale. It's about this bloggers own life an' love of design: What makes a design good, what doan. Iffin' ya wanted some "service" or referral to resources, ya' would jes' email the blogger--no attempt to craft the post toward sales.
An' we's got a few bloggers whose blogs have links that offer us their professional talents--La Diva Cucina an' Chickory come to mind--but they doan relate to us fer the whole purpose of sellin' stuff. ( Imagine goin' to a party whar' ever'body looks each other over to assess how ya' might advance their careers--oh, wait, thas' why we quit goin' to most "parties." )
See, what I means is, them blogs whar' the whole focus is to SELL BABY SELL!
It's a line that gits crossed--when yore posts is all about drivin' traffic to yore online store or to yore ring-round-blogger-sellers.
Related is this matter of corporate blogs--the, we's-jes'-like-all-y'all (don't look at the man behind the curtain!) blogs. Only, they ain't. They's set up to git ya' all folksy feelin' toward big Ag, big Pharma, big Media. Phooey! It scalds mah hide to do searches on a topic an' be three paragraphs in a'fore I realize, Wait! I'se bein' set up. Thar's nuthin' in the URL to give a hint that ya' landed on a lobbyist blog defendin' in indefensible.
Ok, yore turn. I'se ranted on 'nuff. Does this stuff bother ya' or ya jes' figger it's the nature of the Blog Beast?
I'se proposin' a designation of dot. non-com. NO COMMERCIAL interest. A Truth-In-Blogging policy.
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