Trying to sort out this blogging thing
June 19th, 2008 |
What Kind of Blogger are You? is a thought provoking post from Leah McChesney that dovetails nicely with my recent post on the various kinds of corporate blog posts.
While I attempted to categorize types of blog posts, Leah does a nice job describing the varied and not always flattering kinds of bloggers out there, including:
- the attention junkie/those who need an ego fixation
- the lazy/undisciplined blogger
- all over the place/depends on the blogger’s mood that day
- antagonistic/this blogger is usually unforgiving and angry, usually tries to be persuasive
- impulsive/is a serial blogger with abandoned blogs
- story telling/often a deep thinker
Leah did a great job and unfortunately, I saw myself in far too many of her descriptions. For example, I’ve got a draft blog post titled “Confessions of a Serial Blogger” about all of my abandoned blogs. But I’m not an attention junkie. No way.
Tags: leah mcchesney, mediameme
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Please enter me in both the ‘all over the place’ and the ’storytelling/often a deep thinker’ categories.
Seriously though, I think there are two other categories relating to stats: those who blog solely to drive numbers to their sites so they can sell advertising, and those for whom the act of self publishing is the most important consideration.
Comment by Ruth Seeley — June 20, 2008 @ 11:12 am
Since I’m new(er) to the scene, and still finding my voice, I am probably “all over the place” trying to be “educational.”
Interesting point, Ruth. It leads me to wonder how much a split that actually is.
Comment by Paul Jonas — June 20, 2008 @ 6:43 pm
Oh, come one… don’t you ALL secretly want to join me in the last category?
Comment by Ike — June 24, 2008 @ 12:37 pm
Ike,
That’s deep.
Joel
Comment by joel — June 24, 2008 @ 12:53 pm
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