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Back Online
We’re back. After the brief recess that I described in my previous post, I feel re-energized to get back at it.
However one may notice, over the next few posts and beyond, a different hue to the writing I’ll be doing here. Let me explain.
The Anti-Wall Street Journal
While I was busy not writing any new posts here for the last week, one of the things I did manage to accomplish was a little more discovering and reading of new, and in some cases familiar, blogs. An inspirational experience to say the least.
When I first somehow managed to snag this domain name, and I do think I was lucky to get it, I had this faint notion of somehow developing the “anti-WSJ” blog. This thought was of course pre-Rupert, which only helped to solidify my intention.
Now I realize I may be shedding some readers here by revealing my left leaning tendencies, and I also don’t mean to simply disparage the WSJ on journalistic grounds…though I believe that paper is about to do that to itself under the NewsCorp banner. I did spend enough time reading the WSJ to know that the journalism was sincere and professional, but there has been little disguising the conservative slant that was to be expected of the paper of record for Big Business USA.
So in my own small, personal little way I wanted to basically vent in opposition to that slanted media empire and join my voice to the increasingly loud liberal movement trying to regain it’s footing here. And at the same time I wanted to attempt to provide some kind of information gathering about the goings-on in the net and business nexus.
Where To Now?
Well, I still find the internet and it’s business applications interesting enough to “report” on, particularly concerning the blogosphere, where a healthy dose of politics is mixed in. This is where I feel the two, net and business, are coming together most forcefully, that’s what drew me to blogging in the first place.
But I’ve also recently begun to realize that this is about the only place I can express my views on the issues, whatever they may be, that I feel passionate about…and isn’t that what all the pro blogging experts say you “must” do to succeed in the sphere anyway? Find your passion and pursue it, the readers will come, right?
Go forward…and to the left!
So, whatever it may cost me in readers who have stopped by for a look so far, I’m determined to expand the presence of the Op/Ed page here, probably at the expense of the Internet Marketing, Pro Blogging stuff I didn’t really know all that much about anyway. I still intend to follow and link to other bloggers I find interesting, many of whom will be within the realm of pro blogging as their focus…for example I had been planning a blog of the week type of article that would focus on some money-making blog theorist or traffic generating tips piece by some expert. Instead I am moving towards a site of the week concept…not necessarily a blog and potentially about anything I feel needs attention….Darfur for example.
So there you have it. I am back and newly inspired to write more and definitely to think more about what I chose to write about. If your wondering where some of this inspiration is coming from, these three sites will get you started:
The Thinking Blog … yes that does seem to make sense doesn’t it?
Wonderland Or Not … my most recent discovery, be sure to find the companion blog Darfur: An Unforgivable Hell on Earth .
And last but by no means least…Steve Pavlina … of course.
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