Comments on: Has blogging become the anti-emo?

By: TNX Point System For Buying and Selling Text Links || Beyond the Rhetoric ||

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:05:23 +0000

[...] ago, blogging was just a matter of personal expression. And then blogging became the anti-emo when more mainstream people starting posting their personal journals online. These days, most blog [...]

By: What’s Worse: A Dot Com Poser or an E-Thug? || Beyond the Rhetoric ||

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:18:38 +0000

[...] world, the Internet is filled with many different personalities. You have your rich snobs, your emo kids, and then you have the people who complain all the [...]

By: Blogger’s Choice Awards || Beyond the Rhetoric ||

Blogger’s Choice Awards || Beyond the Rhetoric || — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:24:45 +0000

[...] the Emmys, but what about the fastest growing segment of the media? Blogging was once the realm of emotionally-charged discharges, and while some blogs still do that, many more are out to make a buck or two while they’re at [...]

By: J.B.Slife

J.B.Slife — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:13:01 +0000

I started my blog to make money….huge mistake. I have a successful ecommerce store and a growing forum. I’m going to stick to those for making money. I am going to keep blogging, though. It helps me relieve stress and keep track of my life.

ALL YOU! That’s what a blog should be. Nobody can tell you who you are.

By: the.[ED]ition » Speed Link Sunday!

the.[ED]ition » Speed Link Sunday! — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:05:34 +0000

[...] Comment whore Michael Kwan looks at the state of blogging and how it has evolved from a way for emo kids to express their depression and anger into a full [...]

By: Ajith

Ajith — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:58:11 +0000

The emo stuff is now far gonelike everything else Bloggers now are also trying to make big money (most of them plan to leave full time job by makin enough money from blog) and blogs do dgrade with the money effect, you friend is an example (i think you got whom I meant)

By: Michael Kwan

Michael Kwan — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:01:57 +0000

Well thus far, I’d say that you “cobbled together” a fair share of success. It’s unrealistic to expect success, given that less than 1% of all blogs ever “make it”, so to speak.

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:47:53 +0000

That’s sound advice. I didn’t start with the expectation (or even a conception) of success, I just kind of stumbled into whatever success I’ve managed to cobble together.

By: Michael Kwan

Michael Kwan — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:14:05 +0000

And if you get kicked in the chest as a result… and even then, I’m smiling.

By: Ed Lau

Ed Lau — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:02:10 +0000

Personally, I think the best blogs are the ones that have a personal touch but not…too much. I want my readers to know who I am so that I can prove I’m not some kind of blog robot but a blog is seriously not a place to tell the world how you’re feeling depressed and how your parents don’t understand you. Why? Guess what, emo kids…the world doesn’t care.

I think it’s because blogging has become more mainstream and more people are using it as a business tool.

I also think this generally our view because…well, folks like me and you, Michael, are a bit older and we’ve outgrown teenage angst and couldn’t care less what our parents understand. We’re also…well, me and you aren’t quite dot com moguls as of yet but I consider folks like us to be rather relatively successful and we really have no reason to be depressed and angry at the world other than when a bunny gets sick, the Canucks lose one game out of twenty or some bastard incorrectly tells you Top Gear has been canceled.