Some Blogging Thoughts

Personal Experiences

“It is a fool who repeats the same actions expecting a different outcome”
-Grom Hellscream, Lord of the Clans by Christie Golden

I was reading my friends article entitled Filipinos actually love their bloggers via Manila Bulletin  and I did some reflection on why there are very few posts here in menardconnect.com recently. So many reasons here and there 🙁 . But reading the names of blogs, bloggers and hashtags in Tonyo‘s article really made me “senti” and inspired me to do a more serious reflection on my blog and blogging in general. So I also revisited my old post back in 2009 (yup this blog was self-hosted wordpress blog since 2008). The scenario was we (my high school batchmates and I was discussing what blogs was then. I am pasting some snippet of the discussion.

“What is a blog?
wikipedia definition:
A blog (a contraction of the term “Web log”) is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order.

“Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog

blogger.com definition:
A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world. Your blog is whatever you want it to be. There are millions of them, in all shapes and sizes, and there are no real rules.

In simple terms, a blog is a web site, where you write stuff on an ongoing basis. New stuff shows up at the top, so your visitors can read what’s new. Then they comment on it or link to it or email you. Or not.

My say? Blogger.com describes it well, it can be a diary, a rant/rave site, a political movement site, an e-store to sell your stuffs… anything goes… “There are no real rules”. I’ll put it in filipino to express myself better: Blog is “a website tungkol sa mga kanya-kanyang trip”. That’s the menardconnect definition.

Blogging was so simple back then. Kanyang kanyang trip lang! Walang basagan ng trip 🙂

Fast forward to 2016 (and 2017). I admit I was affected by this toxic environment in politics and social media the last few months and this affected the frequency of my posting here. And its good to read that Tonyo made a strong point on accountability (of bloggers)

I’m sure many bloggers would share my view that we cannot stop these bloggers from blogging, and that they are ultimately accountable to themselves and to their readers. But for either administration or opposition to claim that their competing blogs and websites represent the blogosphere — that’s different. That’s misrepresentation.

Bloggers, be responsible and accountable. Period.

Quo vadis?

For me and my blog.

There is a saying in Filipino that “Pag gusto may paraan, pag ayaw me dahilan“. I choose action and positivity in blogging. For the action, I will continue to post more about interesting topics, maybe discuss my passions. But I will do something different just like what the opening quote is (I got it from an old Warcraft book, btw). NO! I don’t plan to post about politics (that’s too toxic hehehe and read some old post on why I avoid it) but if there is really a good mix of other with political tidbit (e.g pol+infosec or malware or games or others) why not?

Seriously, let me work with the action and positivity first. I really miss posting about games and practical internet security tips so that will be top on the list. Also some shout-out post to some new bloggers in the block in in the work so watch out for it OK?

To all readers out there: Thank you for your continued support!
And to all bloggers out there: Have fun and keep on blogging! Stop the hate! Spread love!